The Edge - Hardcover

Francis, Dick

4.09

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718131797 ISBN 13: 9780718131791

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 1988

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"A tour de force...A steadily high level of interest, comedy, suspense, and surprise."
THE ATLANTIC
The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race is not only a glittering rail junket that promises the oportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but is something more: an intriguing mystery will be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But included on the guest list is one Julius Apollo Filmer, justifiably reputed to be the most ruthless operator lurking in the racing underworld, and he's planning a strange plot of his own. For Tor Kelsey, undercover security agent for the British Jockey Club, a scenario of imaginary mayhem is about to explode into a nightmare of real and bloody murder.

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From the Publisher:

Dick Francis, a former jockey, brings his experience of racing and life around the racetrack to his mysteries. (And so far Francis is a three-time winner of the Edgar Award for writing the best mystery of the year.) This horse racing background is appealing to my market area of Southern California. Racing is a popular sport amongst Southlanders.

--Nanci Andersen, Ballantine Sales

From the Back Cover:

"A thrilling race . . . Action aplenty."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"It's obvious Dick Francis had a good time writing THE EDGE.
I certainly had a good time reading it."
--SUE GRAFTON
The New York Times Book Review

"A tour de force . . . A steady high level of interest, comedy, suspense, and surprise."
--The Atlantic

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