Lion #43

These Football Matches Were Different! is a spirited look at the unusual—and often hilarious—venues where football has been played throughout history, from matches on the Goodwin Sands seven miles out to sea to games on ice, in desert sandstorms, and even behind the barbed wire of a prisoner-of-war camp. Each tale celebrates the sport's stubborn persistence in the face of the most improbable circumstances, proving that fans and players alike will go to almost any length for the beautiful game.

Brett Marlowe and his chauffeur Rusty Race stumble upon a shooting at a countryside greenhouse and find themselves pursuing the gunman—a recently released convict named Joe Foss—across the local roads. When Foss corners the greenhouse owner inside his home, demanding to know the location of hidden money, Brett arrives just in time to intervene and uncover a deception that's more complex than a simple burglary. A sharp mystery that turns on Brett's ability to see through a carefully constructed story.