Odds for murder...
Top model Violet Feverel should be a pretty picture riding the big red
thoroughbred Siwash - but the front page photo on the tabloids is ugly
as death. The police dub the tragedy an unfortunate accident. But Miss
Hildegarde Withers, who stumbled across the girl's body on the Central
Park bridle path, knows they are, unfortunately, wrong. Just plain horse
sense tells her it was murder.
Who was the stranger in the too-small overcoat? What caused the spot of
blood on the stallion's flank? What obvious clue at the scene of the
crime was a red herring?
Joining forces with New York's grumpiest homicide inspector, Oscar
Piper, Miss Withers is once again off and running after a killer. Then a
day at the races ends with another dead body, and Miss Withers must play
a deadly game of sleuth where the stakes are high and odds are growing
higher.