Updated 7/10/01:

Ok, correct that. We're actually working on Fair's Point. After a great meeting with our agent, Don Maass, we looked at the next few books and reworked the chronology a tad.

Gaming and gambling are popular pastimes in Astreiant, especially the basket-terrier races, and Philip Eslingen is awarded controlling interest in a promising young racer as payment of a debt. Handicapping is complex, relying a lot on horoscopes as much as past performances and pedigrees. It's more than the usual madness, and the big races draw in a lot of people to Fair's Point, second only to the Midsummer Fair. People do whatever they can for their dog to win, not all of it legal, and no one mourns when one of the racesheet writers is found murdered...

Horoscopes, handicapping, and dognapping and fraud: and Rathe and Eslingen are in the thick of it...

Sometimes it's just safer not to ask questions. And it sure as heck is safer not to sit around in bars after conventions with Don Sakers and Thomas Atkinson playing you filksongs. This collection is something of a cult piece. Try searching for it on ABEbooks.com.

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