The RaceA woman in peril A madman out for vengeance Only Isaac Bell stands between them. It is 1909, the age of flying machines is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates an intrepid woman named Josephine Frost and that's where Isaac Bell, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes