SYNOPSIS: When a track errand-runner disappears Shifty follows the trail to Tijuana. There instead of recovering money - Shifty finds that he is part owner of a broken-down horse, the result being he is drawn into investigating a web of scams involving the drugging of horses and the smuggling of priceless Mayan artifacts across the border inside gorilla masks. Author: William Murray was an American fiction editor and staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years. He wrote a series of mystery novels set in the world of horse racing, many featuring Shifty Lou Anderson, a professional magician and horseplayer. Among his many contributions to The New Yorker was the magazine's "Letters from Italy" of which he was the sole author. The majority of his later years were spent living in Del Mar, California, "exactly 3.2 miles from the finish line" of Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Murray died in March 2005 at age 78. Just prior to his death, Murray had completed a book about Chicago's Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. #### King of the Nightcap by William Murray 1st Edition Hardcover Book 1989. Getaway Blues, William Murray 1st Edition 1990 Published by Bantam Dell Pub Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1989 Publisher: Bantam Books Place Of Publication: New York Date Published: 1989 Keywords: Mystery #hardcover#mystery#book#racetrack#booknerd#mysterylove#adventure#horseracing#racetrack#suspense