James MacGregor Boeken

When Victoria Pryde opens her racing paper and reads that a horse called Mr Pryde is dead, she hopes that it's just a sick joke. But she has a nasty feeling that there might be more to the announcement than meets the eye. For her husband Edward has been missing for two weeks - and with good reason: he's run up massive gambling debts and his chief creditor, an unscrupulous bookie, has been leaning on him very heavily. Then comes the discovery of his burnt-out Jaguar, with the charred remains of a body in the boot, a body which the police identify as Edward's..

He was a jockey called Jose Ramirez. He'd been dead a long time. His arms were scarred with needle-tracks. But it was a knife, not heroin, that had killed him. Alistair Rye was the last man to see him alive - and they'd had a fight. A knife had been involved. Now the police in three countries were after Alistair: for murder; for drug smuggling. Two people knew that Alistair was innocent - Alistair himself and Claudia his wife. She could clear him. And she would. Wouldn't she?

Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For ten years, they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through Belgrade and St Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever since. The official version is fatally flawed, warped by the volume of evidence they destroyed or concealed from public view. Hidden History poses a tantalising challenge. The authors ask only that you examine the evidence they lay before you . . .

Když se Victoria Prydeová dočte v dostihovém tisku, že je její manžel Edward mrtev, považuje to zpočátku za nepodařený vtip. Jistě, čtrnáct dní byl nezvěstný, ale to si vysvětlovala tím, že se skrývá před bookmakery, jimž dlužil přílišvysoké částky. Policie obviní prvního podezřelého, trenéra Toma Radcliffa. Toho však Victoria miluje, a tak začne shánět důkazy o jeho nevině. Ví, že opravdový důvod k vraždě mohlo mít nejméně šest osob, které Edward vydíral…

V přepravním boxu na závodišti v Newbury byl zavražděn starší stevard Jockey Clubu. Role detektiva se ujímá James Thackeray, schopný novinář a tipař, odborník na dostihy a jezdec amatér v jedné osobě – má důvod, on tělo nalezl a muž, který mu mohl potvrdit alibi a vnést do případu světlo, byl umlčen. Thackeray v pátrání po vrahovi pokračuje, přestože i jeho život je ohrožen. A navíc nechce přijít ani o své vítězství ve Velké národní…

Fergus nalézá tělo svého pohřešovaného otce v zahradě usedlosti pod záhonem chřestu. Domýšlí se, že jeho smrt souvisí se snahou matky a jejích čtyř společníků získat pojišťovacím podvodem zpět kapitál vložený do chovného hřebce Moondancera, který se v otcově chovu neosvědčil. Kůň je zastřelen a posléze je zavražděn i jeho ošetřovatel. Pomůže nezákonný postup vyšetřovatele pojišťovny k odhalení podvodu i vraha?

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