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Imprint: Companion Book Club, 1974
Edition: Book Club Edition
Binding: Hardcover, No Jacket

1974 Companion Book Club Edition. BOOK in red "leatherette" hardcover, gilt decoration to corners & spine, slight bumping to edges. PAGES clean, flat & tight. Book Extract; we flew down in the morning, Walt's puffed eyes showingthat the anniversary had been duly celebrated, and minefeeling as if they'd been rolled in grit.The two drivers, reached by telephone, met us by appoint-ment in the entrance hall of a motel near the centre ofLexington, where Walt had stayed on his previous trip. Hebooked rooms for us both, and we took the drivers up tohis, which proved a mile short of Biltmore standards but hoton cleanliness and Kleenex.Walt switched on the air-conditioning, shuffled chairsaround, and promised beer later. The drivers, very much onthe defensive, went sullenly through the disastrous taleagain, aware beyond any doubt that they should never haveleft the horses unwatched and were more than likely tolose their jobs. Nothing they said added much to whatWalt had already told me.'Do you know each other well?' I asked.The thin birdlike one said they did.'And the grooms. Do you know them? And do they knoweach other?''Seen them around,' said the heavy one. 'The lazy so andso's.'The thin one said, 'One of them came from the MidwayFarm.' That was Dave Teller's. 'He came specially forChrysalis. It's him ought to be blamed for the whole thing..''Did the boys know each other, before the trip?''Sure,' said the heavy one. 'Way they talked they bothbeen in the horse game all their lives.'Walt sniffed and nodded. He'd checked all this, hisresigned face said. Routine.Synopsis;A quarter of a million pounds worth of Derby-winning stallion has vanished in Kentucky, and a young man and a girl spend a dangerous afternoon in a punt on the Thames. From these distant but related beginnings, investigator Gene Hawkins must make sense of the events., 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Good

Stock number: 3466. ISBN: 0600871010

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