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The Edge

Written by: Dick Francis
Narrated by: Tony Britton
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To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation, and proving to be a slippery character to put behind bars. Baffled, they call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey to keep an unflinching eye on Filmer and his associates. A mission that takes him from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior, on a luxury transcontinental train journey to end them all. On board, a troupe of actors are playing out a murder mystery to amuse their wealthy passengers. Ideal cover for a secret investigator with secrets of his own. And ideal cover, as it turns out, for an ice cool blackmailer with murder on his mind.©1988 Dick Francis (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd. Crime Murder Suspense Fiction Racing
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Dick Francis never fails to delight. Tony Britton is excellent as a narrator. My only issue is that, as another listener suggested, this has been transferred from tape to digital and there are certainly background hissing noises.

Excellent story.

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as this is a Dick Francis novel, it is entertaining from start to finish.
however my only complaints, are with the audio itself. it sounds like it was transferred from tape to digital and the tape wasn't in very good shape.
the narrator did a good job however his Canadian accent was off by at least 40 decades.
all in all, a great listen.

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A minor warning. As others have pointed out the audio quality isn’t the best. My first time listening to this audiobook was tape cassettes, and this is a direct transfer. It isn’t so bad as to be unpleasant to listen to, but compared to the usual sound quality it is noticeable.

The other minor audio thing is that the narrator wasn’t Canadian and has strange pronunciation on a few words. Fuses become few-zes and Via rail becomes V I A rail spelled out.

I kinda enjoyed re-experiencing the few but just as jarring times that happened.

All of that aside, this is one of the more fun and less ‘horsey’ of Dick Francis stories. We follow detective as they work on a puzzle on a train. Well worth a listen, as long as the two warnings above will not spoil the experience for you.

This audiobook was a part of my teens

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one of my childhood favorites. holds up on reread as an adult.

this recording has some distortion happening

love this book

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