Fire Horse - Softcover

Shoemaker, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449149749 ISBN 13: 9780449149744

Publisher: Fawcett, 1996

Synopsis

When his partner at the Horse's Neck Bar and Grill becomes involved with a rich, spoiled woman who is mixed up in a suspicious business, jockey-turned-sleuth Coley Killebrew uncovers a Thoroughbred smuggling operation. Reprint.

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Synopsis:

When Coley''s partner, Johnny Rousseau, falls for gorgeous, rich Paula, he''s not too love-blind to see th at she''s mixed up in some very suspicious business - peculia r racetrack photos, secret shipments of high-priced thorough breds, and murder. '

From the Inside Flap:

m the Winners Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experiences on and off the track to spin this suspenseful mystery starring jockey-turned-sleuth Coley Killebrew. . . .
It all starts when Johnny Rousseau, Coley's partner in the Horses Neck Bar and Grill, finds himself saddled with a little problem named Paula Dresner. Gorgeous, rich, and spoiled rotten, Paula has Johnny twisted around her manicured little finger--but he's not too love-blind to see that she's gotten herself mixed up in some very suspicious business. Coley follows her trail, and it leads him to some peculiar racetrack photos, cut-rate hoodlums making secret nocturnal shipments of high-priced thoroughbreds
. . .and murder. As Coley begins to put the pieces together, things get hotter and hotter. It's a fire that may consume some of the finest horses in the country. And Coley, too. . .
"Shoemaker continues to show a broader streak of fun than Dick Francis, and a more pronounced taste for intrig

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449149749
• ISBN 13: 9780449149744
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292