Comeback Book

Peter Darwin comes home to England after completing his posting in Tokyo.Along the way,he stops in the US and meets a couple who have run into a bit of trouble and ask him to accompany them to England.

The Francis heroes are all good samaritans,always ready to help perfect strangers regardless of the personal risk to themselves.

Their daughter's fiance is a vet,and many horses have died as he has operated on them.Then,his hospital is burnt,and a charred body is discovered.

Later,there is another gruesome murder.Peter Darwin sticks around to help them in an extremely dangerous situation.He is confronted by several characters from his childhood.This was the town where he had lived as a child.

Francis goes into a lot of details about the various ways in which horses can be killed on a vet's operating table.That gets a bit boring.

There is a large cast of characters,which helps to disguise the identity of the culprit.Not among his best thrillers,but Francis hardly wrote any bad books.