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In Myers’s lackluster third outing for Jack Colby (after 2012’s Classic Calls the Shots), the British “car detective” joins a scramble to find one of the two De Dion Boutons that took part in the famous Peking to Paris rally of 1907. Maj. Stanley Hopchurch, the “Mad Major,” asks Jack to locate the antique vehicle, which is rumored to be somewhere around Kent. If found, the car would be the centerpiece of a planned re-enactment of the rally with English towns dressed as the original far-flung locales. Jack accepts the assignment, while also helping regular contact Dave Jennings of the Kent Car Crime Unit to investigate auto restorer Alfred King’s suspicious death. The quest for the De Dion Bouton, meanwhile, only succeeds in opening a Pandora’s box of claimants, plotters, and murder. Exotic vehicles and car lore aplenty should appeal to auto buffs in this otherwise pedestrian whodunit. Agent: Dorothy Lumley, Dorian Literary. (Feb.)
Classic In The Clouds
by Amy Myers
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9781780103518
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers
- Publication date: 02/01/2013
- Series: A Jack Colby, Car Detective Mystery , #3
- Sold by: Barnes & Noble
- Format: eBook
- Pages: 224
- File size: 317 KB
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Jack Colby, car detective, is plunged into a dangerous investigation when he agrees to track down a classic car that’s been missing for over a decade.When car detective Jack Colby is asked by the ‘Mad Major’ to find one of the original five cars that took place in the original Peking to Paris rally of 1907, he accepts the challenge, but is soon plunged into a far more dangerous investigation. Was the recent death of car restorer Alfred King the accident it seems? It’s not long before the car crime underworld becomes involved in the quest for the missing De Dion, and the stage is set for murder . . .
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A car collector and part-time police consultant's search for a famous car turns out to be quite a dangerous job. Maj. Stanley Hopchurch, aka the Mad Major, hires Jack Colby, who's always hard up for cash, to find a De Dion Bouton reputed to have been driven in the 1907 Peking to Paris car rally. The major and fellow trustees Julian Carter and Helen Palmer plan to restage the race in England, complete with towns dressed up as the original stops. The money raised will enable Carter to open Treasure Island, an impressive collection of classic cars that will form the basis for a new museum. In the meantime, the police have asked Jack to look into the suspicious death of classic car restorer Alfred King. Now that Alf is dead, dodgy businessman Connor Meyton is interested in buying out his business, which Alf's assistant Dean Warren has been running. Handsome Dean lures Zoe, one of Jack's restorers, to work with him. The move leaves Jack in the lurch and Zoe in danger. When Jack tracks down the woman who claims to own the De Dion, she refuses to sell even though her family insists that she collect the windfall. They're even more furious when the stubborn owner is murdered after leaving the car to a friend who's equally reluctant to sell it. With so many people desperate to lay claim to the car, Jack has his hands full trying to winkle out the murderer. Jack's third (Classic Calls the Shots, 2012, etc.) offers a complicated mystery along with the usual insights into the world of classic cars and their often loopy collectors.