"There''s little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."

The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there''s big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fails to finish-on account of getting hit in the neck with a poisoned dart?

Anthony Lotherington Bathurst and Chief Inspector McMorran are more interested in who killed Flagon. Who poisoned a set of darts from the local pub with curare and was capable of hitting a jockey on a speeding horse with a single throw? And who killed a lawyer at Flagon''s funeral with the same murder weapon?

The Sharp Quillet was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.

"There''s little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."

The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there''s big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fails to finish-on account of getting hit in the neck with a poisoned dart?

Anthony Lotherington Bathurst and Chief Inspector McMorran are more interested in who killed Flagon. Who poisoned a set of darts from the local pub with curare and was capable of hitting a jockey on a speeding horse with a single throw? And who killed a lawyer at Flagon''s funeral with the same murder weapon?

The Sharp Quillet was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.

"There''s little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."

The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there''s big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fails to finish-on account of getting hit in the neck with a poisoned dart?

Anthony Lotherington Bathurst and Chief Inspector McMorran are more interested in who killed Flagon. Who poisoned a set of darts from the local pub with curare and was capable of hitting a jockey on a speeding horse with a single throw? And who killed a lawyer at Flagon''s funeral with the same murder weapon?

The Sharp Quillet was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.