Dick Francis | ||
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Useful Links: Titles to Look Out For: Retiring in 1957, Dick became racing correspondent for the Sunday Express and began writing. His first book, published that same year, was his autobiography 'The Sport of Queens', which was more recently revised and updated. Dick Francis is the undisputed champion among thriller writers. A former National Hunt jockey, his first novel, Dead Cert, was published in 1962. Whip Hand won the 1980 Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award; and 'Forfeit' was awared the Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Prize for the best crime story of 1969. In the 1980s, Dick and his wife Mary (who helps with the research) lived on the edge of the Berkshire Downs, but in more recent years up to his death in 2010, he and his wife spent half their time in the UK and half in Florida His son, Felix Francis, co-wrote the final few books with his father Dick, and has carried on the raceworld crime and thriller franchise |
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1980, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £0.50 (good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Steeplechase jockeys, like all other professional sportsmen, have to find a second career for themselves as the years go by. Jonah Dereham, retiring from the saddle at thirty-two, chose to become a bloodstock agent and spent his life travelling round racehorse sales, finding and bidding for the sort of horse each of his clients wanted. |
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1989, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £1.50 (good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: To the jockey club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation - and proving to be a slippery character to put behind bars. Baffled, they call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey to keep an unflinching eye on Filmer and his associates. A mission that takes him from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior - on a luxury transcontinental train journey to end them all. On board, a troupe of actors are playing out a murder mystery for the amusement of their diamond-studded passengers. Ideal cover for a secret investigator with secrets of his own. And better still for an ice-cool blackmailer for whom murder is just one of many options... |
1988, 1st Edition, Michael Joseph, hbk 1989, Pan Books, pbk |
1988, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £1.99 (good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home - but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open. When he finds his own life in danger, Pembroke entrusts his safety to his enstranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise. Soon he's playing the international blood stock market for incredible stakes. Not the safest best for a man on the run from avaricious relatives. Particularly when one of them's got a bomb... Characters: Vivien's Children: Joyce's Child: Alicia's Children: Coochie's Children |
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1996, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £3.00 (good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Abebooks Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: Alexander Kinloch found solitude and a steady income painting in a bothy on a remote Scottish mountain. Until the morning the strangers arrived to rough him up, and Alexander was dragged reluctantly back into the real and violent world he thought he had left behind. Millions of pounds are missing from his stepfather's business. A valuable racehorse is under threat. Then comes the first ugly death and the end of all Alexander's doubts. For the honour of the Kinlochs he will face the strangers ... up to the hilt... |
1996, 1st Edition, Michael Joseph, hbk 1997, Pan Books, pbk |
2008, Pan Books, pbk In stock, click image above to buy for £2.99 (very good condition), not including post and packing, which is Amazon UK's standard charge (£2.80 for UK buyers) Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Abebooks Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Biblio |
Storyline: ‘I wondered if I was dying. I wasn’t afraid to die but, such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.’ The night before the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a prestigious black-tie Gala dinner. It is a fitting testament to the glamour of the occasion that top chef Max Moreton is cooking the evening’s meal. Max is something of a celebrity in Newmarket circles. He is founder of the racing town’s favourite Michelin-starred restaurant, the Hay Net. However, spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expects. But much worse is to come...his food is suspected of putting twenty-four of the dinner guests in hospital. Max’s pride and professionalism tells him all is not as it seems. Within hours, Max’s restaurant is forcibly closed, his reputation teeters on the brink of ruin, and a court case looms. But the day is far from over, and soon Max Moreton finds himself desperately fighting for more than just his livelihood... |
2007, 1st Edition, Michael Joseph, hbk 2008, Pan Books, pbk |
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