Complete & Unabridged (The Edge)

The Jockey Club thinks the racing world could do without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption and witness intimidation, he is proving difficult to imprison, so they call in undercover agent Tor Kelsey to keep an eye on him. This mission takes Kelsey on a transcontinental journey.

"BEWARE. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM." So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glittering rail junket that promices not only the opportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses but something more: an intriguing mystery to be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But Julius Apollo Filmer, one of the most ruthless operators of the racing underworld, hatches a strange plot of his own. For Tor Kelsey, undercover security agent, a scenario of imaginary mayhem is about to explode into a nightmare of real and bloody
murder. . . .