Loose Lips: A Jerry Brogan Mystery - Hardcover

Breen, Jon L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671681044 ISBN 13: 9780671681043

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1990

Synopsis

When the most hated man in the horse-racing world is murdered, amateur sleuth Jerry Brogan returns to track down the killer, but the odds steepen as files implicating Brogan in the crime are found

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Fans of Dick Francis and aficionados of the racetrack will enjoy this perky mystery, Breen's third featuring Jerry Brogan ( Listen for the Click ). Brogan, track announcer at the Surfside Meadows training center, plays amateur sleuth when unpopular racing writer Woody Creston is found smothered with a souvenir horse blanket. Creston was a drug pusher and blackmailer who kept files of juicy information on potential victims--Brogan included. (One jockey who fed gossip to Creston rode a horse named Loose Lips.) Following a hunch that might link another jockey, Vance, to the killer, Brogan finds Vance's stabbed body in an alley. Sportscaster Rog Korpelsen invites the suspects to a special edition of his show Sports Squawk , on the pretext of talking horses with them, but poses tricky questions on the air in order to divert attention from the real slayer--stealthily hunted meanwhile by Brogan. Colorful characters--owners, jockeys, trainers, and journalists--populate an entertaining story.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Series protagonist Jerry Brogan, horse-race announcer at Surfside and tournament handicapper at Santa Anita, finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation because of his racing expertise. Called for advice by the LAPD when someone kills sleazy journalist/blackmailer Woody Creston, Jerry questions all the possible suspects to narrow the search. Racehorse fans may appreciate the track talk here, but the dialog stumbles over trite and forced remarks, and the plot suffers from lack of substance. For series followers only.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0671681044
• ISBN 13: 9780671681043
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235