Classic in the Clouds
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Publisher Description
Jack Colby, car detective, is plunged into a dangerous investigation when he agrees to track down a classic car that’s been missing for over a decade.
When car detective Jack Colby is asked by the ‘Mad Major’ to find one of the original five cars that took place in the original Peking to Paris rally of 1907, he accepts the challenge, but is soon plunged into a far more dangerous investigation. Was the recent death of car restorer Alfred King the accident it seems? It’s not long before the car crime underworld becomes involved in the quest for the missing De Dion, and the stage is set for murder . . .
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In Myers's lackluster third outing for Jack Colby (after 2012's Classic Calls the Shots), the British "car detective" joins a scramble to find one of the two De Dion Boutons that took part in the famous Peking to Paris rally of 1907. Maj. Stanley Hopchurch, the "Mad Major," asks Jack to locate the antique vehicle, which is rumored to be somewhere around Kent. If found, the car would be the centerpiece of a planned re-enactment of the rally with English towns dressed as the original far-flung locales. Jack accepts the assignment, while also helping regular contact Dave Jennings of the Kent Car Crime Unit to investigate auto restorer Alfred King's suspicious death. The quest for the De Dion Bouton, meanwhile, only succeeds in opening a Pandora's box of claimants, plotters, and murder. Exotic vehicles and car lore aplenty should appeal to auto buffs in this otherwise pedestrian whodunit.
