Murder is a Handicap by Dick Wordley - Australian Crime Author

by Dick Wordley

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Murder is a Handicap by Dick Wordley Undated Circa 1950 Tasmanian Author - very scarce title and edition FOREWORD "I have called it a Handicap because in such an event, the horse with better form is called on to pass up an advantage to the horse with the next best, and so on down the card to the real dogs. "This is an old handicapper's trick supposed to make the finish even-steven, only it does not always turn out that way, because not always are horse races competed for according to the good book. "Anything can happen, yet here one thing is for sure. "Of the rogues in this particularly dishonest field, the ring- in listed in your book as Harold Norman Chase has, on paper, all the necessary form to be the logical top-weight. "I figure to call the race for you by furlongs, from the mile start to the line, and you can write your own bets now, or during the preliminary call. "But, if stable talk is of any use to you, then you will back nothing in this one and just watch the Judge. "Because only He can tell who really wins in the end." Dick Wordley, Opossum Bay, Tasmania. 1952. Australian published edition by Invincible Press, Sydney Measures approx 200mm x 140mm. The Sydney-based Invincible Press produced mystery fiction novels, Westerns and soft-cover digests from about 1944 to about 1954. With a mix of American, British, and Australian authors, they published about one book per month. There are somewhere around a hundred crime novels by well known authors through this time. Ma

• Publisher: Invincible Press
• Year: 1950
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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