Francis, Dick.

Summary: 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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Flying in the eye of a hurricane, a plane carrying TV reporter Perry Stuart crashes in the Caribbean. In this manner Stuart discovers an island of uranium smugglers, a find which puts his life in danger.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: As he lies on his deathbed, Valentine Clark harbors a secret he is desperate to be rid of. In his delirium he makes his last confession to Thomas Lyon, a visiting film maker shooting a movie on racing, whom he mistakes for a priest. Wild horses could not drag the secret from a priest, but in Lyon's case silence is merely an option, especially now that the secret has put his life in danger. By...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1994

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of theguests.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby--a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1995

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Francis, Dick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1990

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: After a number of horses are shot by someone using a weapon called a "humane killer," steeple chase jockey Kit Fielding vows to stop the killing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1987

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Ian perseveres in his search into the past; discovering the hate that builds silently through the years, the terrible price the relatives pay for their fathers' sins, and a twisted knot of passion compelled to turn love to punishment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1988

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Francis, Dick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain is called to London to save his family from financial ruin. It happens after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds. Far from being a babe in the woods, the painter does an excellent job.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1996

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Mayhem ensues when young physicist Jonathan Derry accidentally acquires three cassettes containing a computer program of a nearly perfect handicapping system.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1982

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: A young man in Britain gives up horse racing to help his millionaire father contest a seat in a parliamentary election. A tale of father-son friendship against the background of political skullduggery. By the author of To the Hilt.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: After a young man gives up his dream of becoming an amateur jockey to enter the world of politics, he discovers that politics can be more exciting -- and deadly -- than steeplechase racing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998

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Francis, Dick.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2010

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Francis, Dick.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Thirteen stories on horse racing. In Blind Chance, a blind boy discovers a scheme by crooks to rig bets, while in Carrot for a Chestnut, life punishes a jockey who drugs his horse.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1998

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: The one-handed former jockey, Sid Halley, hunts for the man who mutilates ponies by amputating their hooves, and discovers the suspect is former jockey Ellis Quint. What's more, Quint has powerful interests on his side and they are out to get Halley. By the author of Whip Hand.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1995

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Francis, Dick.

Summary: Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1991

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