Classic Calls the Shots

Jack Colby, Car Detective #2

by Amy Myers

Car detective Jack Colby has a new case, but soon suspects much more is at stake . . .   - All is not well on the film set of director Bill Wade’s new blockbuster Dark Harvest . At first Jack Colby, car detective, can’t believe his luck when he is called in to investigate the disappearance of Bill Wade’s rare 1935 Auburn speedster, but he soon realizes that this is no straightforward theft. Jack’s warning lights are beginning to flash about his assignment – and rightly so, because the stage is set for murder.

Genres: Cozy Mystery

208 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

aka Laura Daniels, Harriet Hudson

Amy Myers was born in Kent, where she still lives, although she has now ventured to the far side of the Medway. For many years a director of a London publishing company, she is now a full-time writer. Married to an American, she lived for some years in Paris, where, surrounded by food, she first dreamed up her Victorian chef detective Auguste Didier. Currently she is writing her contemporary crime series starring Jack Colby, car detective, and in between his adventures continuing her Marsh & Daughter series and her Victorian chimnney sweep Tom Wasp novels.

Series:
* Peter and Georgia March
* Auguste Didier
* Tom Wasp

Anthologies edited:
* After Midnight Stories

Reviews

[Drasko · Rating 2 out of 5]

As book is more about movie making then about cars one can conclude that this book is written in slow motion.

[Elliemae · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jack Colby, the car detective, is hired as a police consultant when the director's antique Auburn is stolen from the set of his new movie. He learns that the famous director Bill Wade has been plagued with minor problems as he tries to make a film that foreshadows World War II--and then suddenly there's a problem that's much, much worse than a stolen car. Jack falls for an actress, finds a lot of suspicious activities, and finally nabs a murderer. There's not as much about cars as in the first of this series, Classic in the Barn, but car lovers will enjoy this.

[Ruth Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this story. Sometimes it was a little to wordy but all in all very interesting.