He is about to run another race, and he expects the bad guys will put up a wire to take him down. Thugs attack Alan telling him to stop investigating. Also, why did the bad guy wait hours before removing the wire? Not logical. The reason is there is no second witness to the wire. The local policeman questions a few race course employees, but he doesn’t do any more investigating. He goes away and brings someone back later, and by that time it’s gone. Does he take a picture of it or take someone with him as a witness? No. He spends hours at the hospital with Bill’s wife, and then later goes to the race course to investigate. Does he immediately go to the authorities to investigate? No. Alan sees the wire but he’s not sure what it is. During a race, a bad guy strings wire over a jumping fence that kills Bill. Sure Alan figures out who the bad guys are and causes them to get caught, but he does stupid things along the way. He is good at sniffing out trouble and bad guys.” Well, I don’t recall Sherlock Holmes doing stupid things. Alan’s father tells others “Alan has a Sherlock-Holmes-type nature. The cover of the book says “Dick Francis The Grand Master of Crime Fiction.” Sorry, but I disagree. Amateur sleuth does too many stupid things
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