# The Dying Breed

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- Book: [The Dying Breed](https://www.bookquiver.com/declan-hughes/the-dying-breed) ([The Dying Breed.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/declan-hughes/the-dying-breed.md))
- Authors: [Declan Hughes](https://www.bookquiver.com/declan-hughes)
- Publisher: john_murray
- ISBN: 978-07-1956-750-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Even the best private eye needs more than a name to find a missing person, but that's all that Father Vincent Tyrrell, the brother of prominent racehorse trainer FX Tyrrell, will offer Loy when he comes to him for help. A dwindling bank account convinces Loy to delve into the deadly underworld of horse racing, but fortune soon smiles on him: while working another case, he discovers a phone number linked to FX on a badly beaten body left at an illegal dump. Loy's been around long enough to know that there's more to the Tyrrell family than meets the eye - and then a third body appears. At Christmastime, on the eve of one of Ireland's most anticipated racing events, the intrepid investigator bets his life on a longshot: finding answers in a shady network of trading and dealing, gambling and breeding.