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1) Enquiry
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This New York Times bestselling author "captures our attention and holds us spellbound" with a mystery about a horse jockey accused of fixing a race (The New York Times).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
A closed-door enquiry has found Kelly Hughes guilty of the lowest crime imaginable by a professional jockey, throwing a race for money. He's been framed,...
2) High stakes
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A racehorse owner determines to get even with the trainer who has been cheating him.
3) Shattered
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Glassblower Gerard Logan is faced with a threat to his business, his courage, and his life when he comes to the attention of a gang of thugs who are searching for an incriminating videotape entrusted to Logan by his friend, jockey Martin Stukely, who was unexpectedly killed in a riding accident.
4) Blood Sport
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From a New York Times bestseller, "galloping entertainment" about a British secret agent searching for a missing racehorse in the United States (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
With only his tormented past for company, Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three lonely weeks of vacation. So when his boss asks for his help assisting millionaire...
5) Odds against
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Amazing what bodily injury can do for a man. A fall from a racehorse leaves brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career. And a bullet wound helps him find one. Although he's been with a detective agency since his racing accident, it isn't until some two-bit hoodlum drills a slug into his side that he is sent out on a case of his own. That is where he meets Zanna Martin, a woman who just might...
6) Bonecrack
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Neil Griffon, left in charge of the family stables after his father is involved in a grisly accident, is forced into a no-win situation when a crime czar demands his son be employed at Neil's stables and given a chance to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby.
7) Crossfire
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Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
8) Silks
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Defense lawyer Geoffrey Mason agrees to counsel jockey, Steve Mitchell, who has been accused of killing another rider and soon finds himself involved in a web of lies and violence.
9) In the frame
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From a New York Times bestseller, "action, character, and color ride in perfect balance" in a thriller about a horse portraitist turned amateur sleuth (Kirkus Reviews).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Charles Todd, a renowned painter of horses, is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald's house for a weekend visit to find his cousin's young wife...
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