M. L. Spurgeon

Death is Equestrian: a John Holmes Johnson Mystery M. L. Spurgeon

April 1940, a bus ride from Toronto, Canada to Kansas City, Missouri by a man named Rene, sets in motion events destined to become a fiasco involving the Holmes Detective Agency and a Frenchman of Samantha Webb's acquaintance. April 1942, the agency is hired to unravel the threads of the mysterious events plaguing the Frenchman. The retired French policeman is invigorated with a surge of new life when he is invited to join the agency staff. Before it can become a reality, death interferes. A web of entanglement sweeps across the path of John Holmes and Samantha like a wild fire in a forest. Even the stable of their friends, the Solomons, is nearly destroyed by a crazed man seeking revenge on a dead woman. The death count rises slowly.