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From the Car Behind

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First published: 1912
Pages: 212

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Allan Gerard runs the western factory of the Mercury automobile company and still drives its racer himself, because no one else does it as well. At a twenty-four-hour race on Long Island he watches an amateur named Corrie Rose, not quite eighteen, push a car finished in pink enamel and silver-gilt far past his own experience, and takes the wheel to carry him through. That rescue wins Gerard a place in the Rose household for the two weeks before the Cup, among them Corrie's quiet sister Flavia and a forward cousin, Isabel. Sport gives way to a harder question about honor, loyalty, and how far a man will go to shield a friend. Ingram had seen a driver killed at a track before writing her first racing novel, and the mechanical detail carries that weight.

About the author

Eleanor M. Ingram

Eleanor M. Ingram built an American fiction career across novels and magazine stories in the opening decades of the twentieth century. The Thing From the Lake is a supernatural novel built around a composer, an isolated house, and an unseen presence, while From the Car Behind turns to the then-new culture of automobile racing.