Phantom Express

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Author House, Jul 28, 2005 - Fiction - 304 pages

P.I. Bertrand McAbee never thought he’d see another harness race track after a near-death experience in Cassies Ruler. This former classics prof is hired to look into the beating and threatening of a harness horse trainer. As he engages with the case the story of a pacer – Phantom Express – emerges that begins to capture the attention of America. It also brings back some bad memories to some vicious people. In what occurs too often for McAbee’s taste, a simple case caroms into a complex case where death and mayhem lurk.

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Section 1
1
Section 2
13
Section 3
25
Section 4
37
Section 5
47
Section 6
57
Section 7
69
Section 8
79
Section 16
171
Section 17
181
Section 18
191
Section 19
203
Section 20
215
Section 21
225
Section 22
239
Section 23
249

Section 9
89
Section 10
99
Section 11
111
Section 12
123
Section 13
135
Section 14
145
Section 15
157
Section 24
259
Section 25
269
Section 26
281
Section 27
289
Section 28
293
Section 29
295
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About the author (2005)

Joseph A. McCaffrey isn't a classics professor. He's not a P.I. either. But he is a professor of philosophy at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Sometime back he was proposed a job not unlike that which his protagonist, Bertrand McAbee, was offered and accepted. The fictional McAbee stories are explorations of roads untaken. Other McAbee adventures include Cassies Ruler, Confessional Matters, The Pony Circus Wagon, and Scholarly Executions.

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