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Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--but even that friendship cannot keep Doug from sinking farther and farther into the grip of insanity.

"Beware. Many people are not what they seem." So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glitering rail junket that promises not only the opportunity to race a throughbred on some of the world's great courses but something more: an intriguing mystery to be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve.