Recently got done with transcribing this as the OCR I made of this is an epic fail. Going through 160ish pages of text and finding its rendered out 40 or so with the rest either missing or gibberish is not cool.
I've still got to finish up formatting the original text so everything is aligned properly and proof read, but from what I've read so far its not bad. Expect an edit next week, when its all over.
Original
The original concerns the theft of the race horse Topnotch, thanks to a strange signpost leading off from the tracks and a weird tricked out mansion owing to Vilnoff, a strange, Middle European guy, who is definitely not the main bad guy. To be fair there is a weird tree rigged up for signaling and a service station that is used by the crooks as a type of meeting place as well. Haven't gotten to the end yet, but, this isn't a bad story.
Edit. So Vilnoff is definitely the main bad guy, and is clinically insane. He has a scheme from a cabin in the woods where there is the titular signpost, and a shed load of explosives to blow up Bayport, because his wife died in a fire there. He literally gives the boys 20 minutes to get out before rigging the whole place to blow. I don't think many kids books these days will let a main villain top themselves to evade justice. The horse theft is still incidental as is Aunt Gertrude being gifted a stable through a legacy.
Remake.
This is a weird one, its split into two stories. The original race horse theft is still there, but is relegated to the background, by a strange tale of sinister signposts and experimental race cars. This is the main story now, Alden motors target of some foreign twins Vilno and (el) Barto, and their range of weird windscreen crazing signposts. Add in Alden's son Roger, a stuck up prick, and the sidelining of poor ol' Topnotch, and you have the making's of a seriously confused story. Aunt Gertrude is left a stable in the will of an obscure relative, which is how Topnotch is brought in to the tale.
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