Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father requests he does not jeopardize his political career, but enemies within...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a business partner and to enforce the threat all the Princess's best runners are being...
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About family relationships and about the use and abuse of power as champion jockey Kit Fielding seeks to defend his sister and her husband (a race horse trainer) from a spiteful newspaper campaign...
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Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.
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Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker. One driver does and ends up with a dead passenger, and Freddie must...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:John Kendall agrees to write the biography of a National Hunt racehorse trainer. He wishes he hadn't when it takes all his ingenuity to avoid ending up dead in the seemingly innocent training...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist lives a calm and ordered life. That is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape. Logan is suddenly faced with a series of...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:
Autobiography of one time Queen Mother's steeplechase jockey, now a well known thriller writer.
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Another thriller set in the world of horse racing by this best-selling author.
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:Living in his remote Scottish eyrie Alexander Kinloch is used to seeing hikers. But unlike his usual visitors, they are not asking for a cup of tea or directions. Kicked and punched, he finds...
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An entertaining story combining horse racing, detection, suspense and a sensitive study of human relationships. Ex-jockey, Sid Halley, is a victim of his own success, overworked and stretched to...
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The pleasure of a day at Sandown is spoiled for Steven Scott when he sacks the trainer of his horses, a man he once thought of as his friend. For although Jody Leeds seems a bright young...
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Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent, buying and selling horses for a living. But when someone starts sabotaging his business, and colleagues are leaning on him to join kickback schemes, he starts...
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Author: FRANCIS, DickSummary:As Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey, would soon discover, life as a private eye could get a lot worse. Especially when a ruthless property dealer has plans for Seabury racetrack- Plans that have...