Classic Mistake
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Publisher Description
Car detective Jack Colby returns to solve a "dual-engine puzzle . . . Sleekly designed to appeal to both automobile buffs and cozy fans" (Booklist).
A call from Jack Colby's fiery ex-wife Eva always means trouble. This time it's a doozy. She's been accused of murdering her husband, a Mexican band leader shot to death on the towpath of the River Medway. But Jack's race to the rescue comes with a slight detour: his other client, the beguiling Daisy Croft. Someone's stolen Daisy's beloved Morris Minor classic and she needs Jack's car-theft sleuthing skills to get it back.
To Jack's surprise, the two cases begin to merge. It's appears that Eva and Daisy's disparate dilemmas have something in common: a murder committed at a local pub more than three decades ago. As a long-festering plan of vengeance endangers the lives of two innocent women, and a second murder occurs, Jack's investigation heads down a very dangerous road.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two cases preoccupy amiable Jack Colby in Myers's engaging fourth mystery featuring the classic car expert (after 2012's Classic in the Clouds). Jack's spoiled, demanding ex-wife, Eva, who ran off with Mexican musician Carlos Mendez 20 years earlier and has now returned to Maidstone, Kent, needs Jack's help. Carlos's body has turned up on the River Medway towpath. Meanwhile, attractive Daisy Croft wants Jack to find her stolen Morris Minor, which she calls "Melody." In amusing and confusing fashion, Daisy's car is repeatedly found only to disappear just as often. With Eva's arrest for Carlos's murder, Jack has to revisit Carlos's old band mates and a long-ago robbery in an effort to prove her innocence. Dotty archeologist Ambrose Fairbourne and Daisy's unusual "gran," Belinda Fever, provide enigmatic clues. A wealth of classic car lore adds to the fun.
