To the Hilt — Dick Francis

New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis, "master of crime fiction and equine thrills" (New York Newsday), 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...