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Hot Money
Amateur jockey Ian Pembroke sorts out family squabbles while protecting his father from assault. Touching ending.
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8/2001
In The Frame
Painter (of horses) Charles Todd goes to Australia to see if he can find out who killed his cousin-in-law.
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"All the world's a chiaroscuro, and all the men and women merely blobs of light and shade."--pg. 183Read:
6/2003
Knockdown
Jonah Dereham, ex-jockey and horse buyer, keeps trying to buck the system, and keeps getting beat up for his troubles. Yet another poignant ending.
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7/2001
Longshot
A writer (of survival books, mostly) researches a biography of a racehorse trainer.
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6/2001
Nerve
A steeplechase jockey Rob Finn is accused of losing his nerve. Very good story!
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8/2001
Proof
My first Dick Francis book, and it's fabulous! Wine merchant Tony Beach helps find who is selling faked vintage wine.
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6/2001
Rat Race
Pilot Matt Shore would like to know who blew up his air taxi (while ferrying jockeys, trainers and owners, of course).
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Shabby pin-ups of superhuman mammalian development were stuck to the walls with Sellotape, and a scatter of torn-off patches of paint showed where dozens of others had been stuck before. --pg. 96 BONUS QUOTE:
After I finished the sandwich I unstuck the Sellotape and took all the bosomy ladies down. The thrusting pairs of heavily ringed nipples regard me sorrowfully, like spaniels" eyes. Smiling, I folded them decently over and dropped them in the rubbish bin. --pg. 169Read:
6/2003
Reflex
Jockey/photographer Philip Nore finds some interesting photos in a dead track photographer's junk box, an sees what develops. Very good, tricky photography puzzles.
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7/2001
Risk
Accountant and amateur jockey Roland Britten keeps getting kidnapped.
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"I had a friend whose boyfriend insisted on taking her sailing," she said. "She said she didn't terribly mind being wet, or cold, or hungry, or seasick, or frightened. She just didn't like them all at once."Read:
6/2003
Second Wind
Meteoroligist Perry Stuart visits Florida, flies through a hurricane, crashes in the ocean, crashes again on land, meets a good woman, and helps catch the bad guys selling nuclear gook.
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7/2001
Shattered
Gerard Logan, glassblower, keeps getting attacked by people looking for a videotape his dead jockey friend sent him, except he doesn't HAVE said videotape. Very good!
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7/2001
Silks
Lawyer (and amateur jockey) Geoffrey Mason is threatened by awful thug Julian Trent to throw a case. Written with son Felix Francis, who looks like someone I'd enjoying having a drink with.
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11/2009
Slayride
David Cleveland, investigator for the English Jockey Club, goes to Norway to look for a missing jockey and some missing money.
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7/2001
Smokescreen
Actor Edward Lincoln goes to South Africa to find out why his friend's horses aren't racing well.
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5/2003
Straight
Jockey Derek Franklin takes over his brothers gem business when he is killed in an accident. Lots of gadgets!
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"Strewth," he said economically. "As you say," I replied. (pg. 312)Read:
7/2001
The Danger
Safety consultant Andrew Douglas rescues kidnap victims.
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7/2001
The Edge
Tor Keley, investigator for the Britich Jockey Club, travels incognito on The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.
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7/2001
To The Hilt
Alexander Kinloch is a painter who lives in Scotland. Some thugs beat him up, looking for "it". Very good story, with interesting revelation at end.
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Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them [...] it seemed I'd been elected. (pg. 3) WORDS I HAD TO LOOK UP:
Revenant (pg. 56) One who returns after an absence.Read:
8/2001
Trial Run
Randall Drew, a jockey who needs glasses, goes to Moscow to find the elusive Alyosha.
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8/2001
Twice Shy
Physicist/Schoolmaster Jonathan Derry deals with a handicapping computer program and the thugs that want it.
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7/2001
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