New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis, "master of crime fiction and equine thrills", presents his latest and most engrossing novel. 

          Black sheep of a prominent family, Alexander Kinloch is content to paint pictures and play the bagpipes in his ramshackle Scottish home. But the artist’s life is interrupted by a savage, mysterious beating — and a sudden call from his near-bankrupt family, asking for his help. Now Alexander is trying to keep several family treasures from harm — including a steeplechaser called Golden Malt–and feeling a desperate need to brush up his skills in the art of detection…