Our hero, Tony Beach, is a wine merchant, but develops as an expert on everything alcoholic. He is a great disappointment to his family who are horse people. The main thread centers on some counterfeit scotch.
I think the opening episode in this one is Francis's most gruesome so far. At a trainer friend/customer's annual garden party, someone releases the brake on a horse trailer and sends it down the hill into the canvas pavilion where the guests are assembled. And so we open with any number of dead and injured. Among the injured is the trainer and Tony is called upon to help his wife keep things running. In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Tony and a guest team up in the rescue effort. The guest turns out to be an investigator who recruits Tony because of his specialized knowledge.
Francis also comes up with a truly macabre form of murder; it certainly leaves no doubt of the truly evil nature of the antagonist.
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