I actually remembered this one. I remembered the general setting of the last one, but this one - I even remembered whodunit and what happened to him.
This hero, John Kendall, has written a novel and has exhausted the advance while waiting for publication. So - against everyone's better judgement - he accepts a commission to write a biography of a (surprise!) trainer of race horses.
As we get going, we discover that the day job that he finally gave up to concentrate on writing was writing survival guides for a travel agency which specialized in "adventure holidays;" Surviving in the Wilderness, Surviving in the Jungle, Surviving in the Desert - that sort of thing - don't count on those being the actual titles of the fictional books. When the teenaged boy of the household learns about them, nothing will do but that he must read them. John provides a couple of sets of the books and inadvertently provides a murderer with a wealth of methods.
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