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Saratoga Springs, the famous racing centre, is again the setting up for Stephen Dobyns's eighth mystery presenting Charlie Bradshaw, local cop transformed private eye. This time around, since Charlie is going to continue jury responsibility, his off-beat sidekick, Victor Plotz - "a high-on-pragmatism, low-on-ethics kind of person" - agrees to poke around when wealthy equine owner Bernard Logan is kicked to fatality by a equine. Logan's fatality surely appears like an accident. Yet only a couple of days before, Logan experienced come looking for Charlie, convinced his wife wished him dead. It soon turns out that a host of folks at Battlefield Farms don't much like one another. Then rats start popping up everywhere. Before the circumstance is closed down, there's a great deal of mayhem and misdeed, including shenanigans at the contest track. That is the kind of sophisticated, elegant history where Stephen Dobyns excels. And dedicated Dobyns fans need not dread; Charlie Bradshaw is very much on the field. Once again the witty, moodily reflective investigator comes through as a "stand-up full-fashioned creation" (The New Yorker), with the irrepressible Victor Plotz as his perfect foil.
