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By: Dick Francis | Series: A Dick Francis Novel
"Delightful...A tense, fast-paced new mystery...boasting a resolute, resourceful, and modest hero and lots of racetrack characters and color."—San Francisco Chronicle
Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. But when a driver breaks a cardinal rule and picks up a hitchhiker, the results are fatal...for the hitchhiker. Freddie knows that a corpse is bad for business, especially when its trail leads to corpse number two—and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape....
"Delightful...A tense, fast-paced new mystery...boasting a resolute, resourceful, and modest hero and lots of racetrack characters and color."—San Francisco Chronicle
Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. But when a driver breaks a cardinal rule and picks up a hitchhiker, the results are fatal...for the hitchhiker. Freddie knows that a corpse is bad for business, especially when its trail leads to corpse number two—and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape....