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One of British crimes most assured craftsmen perfect entertainment Guardian

Once again the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess so unusually for her she gives her blessing for Blotto to take part in the Great Road Race in his beloved Lagonda so long as he wins The first prize of 10000 preWar sovereigns will help towards repairing the leaky ancestral home

Blotto elects to take chauffeur Corky Froggett as his spare mechanic while Twinks is despatched by her mother to the Highlands to paint water colours and bag herself a wealthy husband But on the morning of the races start enfeebled by food poisoning Blotto and Corky are forced to employ an extra mechanic on their team a slender blonde and rather attractive young American named Ronald

So Blotto and his team are pitted against Europes finest in a race which takes them through France across the Alps to a finish line at the Colosseum in Rome Among the competitors are Florian CarrDagneau indulged son of the race sponsors Count Daspoontz from Germany and the Italian Enrico ParmigianoReggiano All want to win the race and all want the prize money and all with the exception of Blotto and his team will resort to dastardly deception and fiendish sabotage to ensure Blottos Lagonda is not the first car over the finishing line

The ninth hairraising adventure featuring the aristocratic brother and sister sleuthing duo

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