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1) 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....
2) 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...
3) No reserve
Author
Series
Dick Francis novel volume 12
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Theo Jennings, an auctioneer in Newmarket, England, has been climbing the ladder at the bloodstock sales company for the past three years. He's planning on making his first ever multi-million sale with a yearling colt. When he finds the colt dead a few days after the auction, Theo is suspicious that there was foul play involved. As Theo begins to investigate the death, he finds that answers aren't coming readily from those who he questions. When...
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
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 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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