The Dirt-Brown Derby
Series: P.I. Frank Johnson mystery
Publisher: Mundania Press, LLC
Published: July 22, 2006
Place of publication: Cincinnati, OH
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781594262326
Subjects: Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Mystery/Suspense; Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled; Suspense; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled; Fiction-Suspense; Mystery & Detective - General
First sentence: "No thoroughbred will crush its rider's head," Mrs. Taliaferro was telling me over the telephone.
Description: PI Frank Johnson is hired by Mary Taliaferro, a wealthy aristocrat owning a horse estate near Middleburg, Virginia. Mary's teen-age daughter Emily has died in a riding tragedy. The local law enforcement says it's an accident. Mary thinks it's murder. Frank is broke and the money Mary offers is too good to pass up, but his case quickly becomes more complicated when the stable manager is murdered one day after he starts his investigation. Frank soon discovers that there is much more going on here, and he is determined to get to the truth, even if it kills him!