Title: The Sharp Quillet
Description: >>*"There's little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."*

>The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win - there's big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fails to finish - on account of getting hit in the neck with a poisoned dart?

>Anthony Lotherington Bathurst and Chief Inspector McMorran are more interested in who killed Flagon. Who poisoned a set of darts from the local pub with curare and was capable of hitting a jockey on a speeding horse with a single throw? And who killed a lawyer at Flagon's funeral with the same murder weapon?

*The Sharp Quillet* was first published in 1947.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Horse racing, fiction
Time periods: 1940s