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Francis, Dick.

Risk

A certified public accountant and amateur steeplechase rider gets his chance to ride a famous horse in a top race and jumps into an obstacle-strewn course of trouble and danger

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Harpercollins

High Stakes

Inventor and race-horse owner Steven Scott dismisses his adviser and winning trainer, Jody Leeds, thereby attracting the unfavorable attention of the regular and sporting presses

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Across the Board: A Trilogy (Flying Finish, Blood Sport, Enquiry)

Harper Row Publishers

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Matt Shore is a pilot down on his luck. Once he'd flown big jets and dropped supplies in war zones. Now he's ferrying high-class passengers between English race courses. But when one eventful trip ends with his plane exploding in a ball of fire, Matt knows he's not that unlucky. When the police confirm it was a bomb, Matt realises he has a problem. One of his passengers must have been the target - the question is who? Matt to find out fast - because he's scheduled to ferry the same people over the coming weeks. Can Matt stay alive long enough to stop the bomber? Praise for Dick Francis: 'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror 'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph 'The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman 'Francis writing at his best' Evening Standard 'A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever' Sunday Express Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Rat Race

Forfeit

When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's no such thing as a sure thing.

Action & Adventure

Harper and Row

Stated "First U.S. Edition" in clean original dust jacket. Clean green boards with black cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright with clean blank endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with photographs. 247 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, no tears, small price sticker mark on front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.

The Sport of Queens: The Autobiography of Dick Francis

Biographies & Memoirs

Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he'd even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he's asked to visit South Africa to discover why a dying friend's horses are suddenly doing so badly on the race track. Unfortunately, this attempt to help a friend soon puts Lincoln in harm's way. From a nearly fatal interview to a dangerous mishap in a gold mine, it seems only luck is keeping him alive. But fate has more in store. When the scene in the Kruger wildlife park begins to resemble Lincoln's latest big-screen adventure, even he will wonder what comes next...'A wonderfully vivid and sinister conclusion in the Kruger National Park' - "Sunday Times".

Smokescreen

Francis'mysteries are set in the world of horseracing in England. Slayride is set in Norway whre David Cleveland ,official investigator for English Jockey Club is sent to Norway to investigate the disappearance of a British steeplechase jocley from the track with the day's take.

Slayride

Harper

Jonah Dereham, English jockey turned horse-buyer, buys a steeplechaser at Ascot Sales for Mrs. Kerry Sanders, minked and diamonded American sophisticate, and a tie-in with a horse-trading racket and murder for himself

Knockdown

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