The 24th Horse

Just as Cancelled in Red took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd.

The 24th Horse gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them - and others, unfortunately, with far too little.

From the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coupé with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, th...