Melbourne during the Depression. A seedy, corupt city. Someone had struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. for what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out. This, book written in 1933, a year after the mysterious death of Phar Lap, is a previously lost classic of Australian crime fiction.

Genre: Mystery