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Smokescreen

A movie star helps a dying friend whose stable of racehorses appear to have a mysterious affliction which causes them to be able to run only half a track before being exhausted.

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  • "Smoke screen"@en
  • "Smoke screen"

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  • "A movie star helps a dying friend whose stable of racehorses appear to have a mysterious affliction which causes them to be able to run only half a track before being exhausted."@en
  • "Edward Link, a movie star, who despite his fame helps his friend whose South African stable of racehorses are not able to finish a race because of exhaustion. Something is wrong and they work to find the problem. Francis, writing about horses and mystery, his favorite subjects."@en
  • "An actor who plays a superstar detective in films is asked to go to South Africa to investigate the questionable training of race horses."@en
  • "A movie star gets caught up in the world of racehorses by way of a favor to a dying friend."
  • "When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and unnoticed because he is now a world-class star of action films, in which he always plays the hero. And the apparently easy survey of the string of racehorses blows him through a smokescreen into circumstances where to survive he has to make himself become the man everyone else already thinks he is."
  • "Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, had pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to investigate whether someone was tampering with her racehorses. He could not refuse her. Once there, Lincoln is overwhelmed by autograph hounds and high suspicions. And when sudden perils cross his path and murder makes a horrific appearance, Lincoln, the actor-turned-investigator, is plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives. He ultimately realizes that the only way to uncover the killer is to give not only the performance of his life, but a performance to save his life."@en
  • "Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, has pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to do some investigating - she's afraid someone is tampering with her racehorses. Despite his feeling of helplessness, Lincoln cannot refuse her request."@en
  • "Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, had pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to investigate whether someone was tampering with her racehorses. Once there, Lincoln is overwhelmed by autograph hounds and high suspicions. And when sudden perils cross his path and murder makes a horrific appearance, Lincoln, the actor-turned-investigator, is plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives. He ultimately realizes that the only way to uncover the killer is to give not only the performance of his life, but a performance to save his life."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY Edward Lincoln is a famous British actor, but when his godmother becomes worried that someone is interfering with her racehorses, her request for help brings him to South Africa."
  • "Edward Lilncoln is a world wide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. When his ailing godmother pleads with him to travel to South Africa to find out if someone is tampering with her racehorses, he plays real-life detective."
  • "While investigating racehorse tampering, Edward Lincoln is confronted by sudden perils and even murder."@en
  • "A famous movie star who plays impossible caring detectives, Edward Lincoln, is in real life an ordinary man in an extraordinary spot. His ailing godmother has persuaded him to go to South Africa to investigate the possible tampering with her race horses. As he deals with his celebrity, Lincoln is confronted by sudden perils and even murder."
  • "Edward Lincoln, a movie star who plays daring detectives on the silver screen, travels to South Africa to find out who is tampering with his grandmother's race horses. Edward discovers that he is the target and not the horses."@en
  • "Movie star Edward Link becomes involved in the dangerous world of horseracing as he investigates a mysterious ailment threatening the stables of a dying friend."@en
  • "Edward Lincoln is a famous British actor, but when his godmother becomes worried that someone is interfering with her racehorses, her request for help brings him to South Africa."
  • "Edward Lincoln is a famous British actor, but when his godmother becomes worried that someone is interfering with her racehorses, her request for help brings him to South Africa."@en
  • "A movie star must give the performance of his life when he crosses paths with killers while investigating race-horse tampering in South Africa. Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, has pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to do some investigating, she's afraid someone is tampering with her racehorses. Despite his feeling of helplessness, Lincoln cannot refuse her request."

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Audiocassettes"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Audiobooks, Fiction"@en

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  • "Smokescreen"@en
  • "Smokescreen"
  • "Smokescreen abridged"

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