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1) Iced
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing takes place on...
2) Hands down
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
523 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization an informant who is passing on confidential...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 5
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events alone, Hinkley begins investigating the jockey and the races...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim? Harry knows very little about...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Chris Rankin, who treated the deceased is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Felix Francis is back with another edge-of-your-seat thriller, in the classic Dick Francis tradition. Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs retired private investigator Sid Halley to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead under suspicious circumstances.
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career- ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker Herb Kovak is murdered, execution style, right in front of him -- and 60,000 other potential witnesses. Foxton and Kovak were both independent financial advisers at Lyall & Black, a firm specializing in extreme-risk investments. As he struggles to come to terms with Kovak's seemingly inexplicable death,...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument -- and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of...
Author
Series
Dick Francis novels volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bill Russell is acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick races when he confronts his worst nightmare---the violent death of his much-loved wife. But, the aftermath proves much worse when he is accused of killing her and then hounded mercilessly by the media. Losing his job and in danger of losing his home too, Bill's life begins to unravel completely. Even his best friends turn against him, thinking him guilty of the heinous crime, despite the lack...
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