A new case for Shifty Lou Anderson finds the horse track aficionado and magician involved in a deadly racetrack scam, when he helps train Old Roman, a potential champion that keeps having mysteriously bad luck before each race.
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Shifty Lou Anderson, professional magician and obsessed horseplayer, always has a trick or two up his sleeve where, in this, his seventh adventure, he also wears his heart. But by the time the story ends, Shifty will have once again proved his "inability to commit to any living creature without a saddle on its back," as Murray demonstrates anew his acute ear and eye for racing's argot and characters while avoiding the merely Runyonesque. Shifty becomes assistant to ailing Los Angeles trainer Charlie Pickard, narrowly escapes having his nimble fingers broken, loses his girlfriend, stablehand May Potter, and gets involved in a banking scam that uses the track and Charlie's employer's horses to launder huge sums of money headed to Balkan ethnic cleansers. "Corruption is an American specialty and cheating is a national pastime," Shifty muses. He has always kept himself clean, however, and does so again in this tale that may fall a notch below the earlier I'm Getting Killed Right Here , but is still full of flavor and Shifty's gallant, galloping spirit.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
By virtue of his usual preoccupation with magic sleights of hand and playing the horses, Shifty Lou Anderson recognizes shady dealings when he sees them: clues fall right into his lap. Helping out a horse-trainer friend recovering from heart surgery, Shifty witnesses betting irregularities, unwarranted jockey replacements, suspicious owners, and murderous hangers-on. His affair with May runs full tilt, but descriptions of track life, horse training, and card tricks still outnumber scenes of graphic sex. Shifty's confrontational style wins again. Recommended, especially for Dick Francis fans.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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