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By: Felix Francis

ISBN: 9780718193188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Sir Richard Stewart, chair of the horse racing authority, demands ex-investigator Sid Halley examines some suspicious races, he is given a firm no. Sid retired six years ago - and nothing will make him go back. But he's wrong. Next day, Sir Richard is found dead. Then Sid's six-year-old daughter goes missing and he receives an anonymous call.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Seventeen-year-old Benedict Juliard's ambitions of becoming a steeplechase jockey are dashed when he's falsely accused of taking drugs. For his estranged father, however, this is an opportunity.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916912
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people's, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he's taken a big risk: using GBP5 million to stud a champion racing stallion. When the resulting foals have birth defects, Tim is worried and decides that there may be something else going on at the stables.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gene Hawkins is a fixer for his boss Mr Keeble: if Keeble has a problem, Gene goes and fixes it. It's that simple. Sometimes it requires the Luger he carries - mostly it doesn't. Now Keeble has summoned Gene back from a long-overdue holiday. It seems that a very expensive stallion has been taken in Kentucky.


(Paperback)

By: Felix Francis

ISBN: 9780718193171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Mark Shillingford commentates on a race in which his twin sister Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in third, he can't help but be suspicious. As a professional race-caller, he knows she should have won. Did she lose on purpose Was the race fixed Why on earth would she do something so out of character


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916714
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jockey Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless business partner who wants to use the firm to manufacture arms. At the same time, some of the Princess' best horses are being killed - shot by a bolt. The only person the Princess can turn to is Kit - but he has problems of his own.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding has just ridden another winner for his patron - the Princess - when his twin sister Holly comes to him with terrible news. A newspaper is printing stories which will put her husband, and his stables out of business. Putting aside the age-old feud, Kit decides to try to find out who is behind these cruel stories.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey turned investigator, is facing his toughest test. A number of horses have been brutally mutilated, horrifying their owners and the general public. Even Sid's friend, broadcaster Ellis Quint, has been moved to make a shocking programme about it.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin is returning to England, back to his childhood home of Gloucestershire. But instead of a pleasant trip down memory lane, Peter finds himself coming to the aid of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theatre is rapidly turning into an abattoir.


(Paperback)

By: Felix Francis

ISBN: 9781405915199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jeff Hinkley, undercover investigator for the British Horse racing Authority, is looking into the shady activities of a race horse trainer. But as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Alan York's friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral's fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached. The fall was no accident - but murder.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Ex-jockey Freddie Croft now runs a fleet of vehicles which transport racehorses across the British Isles and Europe. But when two of his drivers pick up a hitchhiker who ends up dead, Freddie's got a big problem. First, it quickly becomes apparent that the hitcher wasn't quite what he seemed.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Kelly Hughes rides the favourite into second place, he gets penalized for his trouble. Not only has he lost the race, but also his licence, as the Jockey Club suspends him - believing he threw the race. Only he knows that the problem lay with the horse's performance, not his own.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Amateur jockey Lord Henry Grey decides on a whim to join the bloodstock market, transporting racehorses around the world. And when he meets the glamorous Gabriella in Italy, he is sure he's hit the good life. That is, until a horse unexpectedly dies in transit and a colleague vanishes.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916899
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Daniel Roke owns a stud farm in Australia. He's young, smart, hard-working and desperate for some excitement - all of which makes him the ideal candidate for the Earl of October, who has come visiting. The Earl is concerned about a horse-doping scandal that is destroying English racing.


(Paperback)

By: Felix Francis

ISBN: 9781405915212
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When inventor Stephen Scott abruptly fires his winning trainer Jody Leeds, the racing world is shocked and disgusted - though not quite as angry as Leeds, who swears revenge on his former friend. But Steven is convinced that Leeds has been stealing from him - and worse - and felt he had no choice.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Malcolm Pembroke didn't get rich without making a few enemies - not least among the five wives and nine children left like wreckage in his wake. But when Moira, his fifth wife, is murdered and Malcolm believes that someone is out to get him, he knows of only one person he can turn to: his estranged son, Ian.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald's house and stumbles on a grisly scene: police cars everywhere, his cousin arrested for murder and Donald's wife brutally slain.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9780718179083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent who buys and sells horses for his clients. As an ex-jockey, it's the ideal quiet life - until Jonah is attacked by thugs out to sabotage his business. Unfortunately for them, Jonah's a man with a steely resolve. He's determined to find out who is trying to ruin him, and why.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916707
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall had bargained for. Not even the survival guides he's written can help him. So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers approaches Kendall to write his biography, it's an offer the impoverished writer can't turn down.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Rob Finn's winning streak made him one of the most sought-after steeplechase jockeys. But his subsequent collapse in form surprised no one more than himself. As word spreads that Finn has lost his nerve, he discovers a well-managed campaign to discredit certain jockeys; in his own case, a plan assisted by horse doping.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Champion jockey Sid Halley retired from racing when his hand was smashed in a fall. Now he works as a private detective - which is proving to be no less dangerous to life and limb.


(Paperback)

By: Dick Francis

ISBN: 9781405916639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wine merchant Tony Beach will do anything for a quiet life. But when a party to celebrate the end of the racing season ends in eight violent deaths, he is drawn reluctantly into the subsequent investigation. Meanwhile, the police, having evidence of the sale of illicit alcohol at a local club, ask for Tony's help in closing it down.

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