Hotshoe Author:Jerry Smith Falsely implicated in the suicide of tire maker and former dirt-track champion Sherm Case, writer Jason Street's life is crossed up and headed for the haybales. Hope arrives in the shapely form of Case's daughter, who hires Street to prove that her father's death was not a suicide, but cold-blooded murder. With little to go on, Street joins the ... more »flat track circuit as a "pit helper" and sets off on a coast-to-coast hunt for the killer, accompanied by the brilliant but erratic young hotshoe Rusty McCann and his tuner, Ozzie ("Don't call me Harley") Davidson. The search takes him from gritty short tracks to blue-groove miles, where the stakes are higher than Street could have imagined--life and death.« less