If you like mysteries and haven't discovered Dick Francis--here's you chance.
Trains and horse-racing--a good mystery!
This lighthearted novel follows the Race Train with its load of British racehorses and owners, and racegoers across Canada. Young Tor Kelsey, wealthy and bored, returns from working his way around the world, the British Jockey Club ask his help when a notorious but unproven corrupt owner joins the train. Tor saves the train from sabotage and falls in love before it reaches the end of its journey! A great read!
An amazing junket!
always enjoy his books. this is no exception.
Horse Racing fun...fun to read while the Triple Crown is going on.
Great read
Nice Dick Francis book, transcontinental train ride and mystery.
Undercover operative Tor Kelsey just received his make-or-break assignment: masquerading as a waiter on The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train - a high-class horse-racing junket for the super-rich. He was told to look out for trouble, but he never could have guessed how much.
Because one of the passengers on this elegant excursion is Julius Apollo Filmer - a sociopathic genius of blackmail and criminal corruption. His goal - take the train and its passengers for everything they have. And Tor is the only one with enough cunning and courage to take him on...
Because one of the passengers on this elegant excursion is Julius Apollo Filmer - a sociopathic genius of blackmail and criminal corruption. His goal - take the train and its passengers for everything they have. And Tor is the only one with enough cunning and courage to take him on...
A typical Dick Francis mystery involving horses, murder and mayhem.
