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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999
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Summary: The accidental death of jockey Martin Stukely implicates his friend Gerard Logan, a glassblower, in a dangerous search for a missing videotape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2000
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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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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Summary: Foreign Office British diplomat, Peter Darwin uses all of his skills to solve a veterinary surgeon's race-horse nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Summary: After becoming involved with the Stratton Park racecourse, Lee Morris, a young architect, engineer, and builder, finds himself reluctantly drawn into the deadly infighting among members of the clan that owns the facility.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: When three corpses turn up on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day, including a jockey who had earlier in the day won the Triumph Hurdle, ex-jockey-turned-sleuth Sid Halley investigates a possible link to Lord Enstone's mysterious losing streak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1998
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1987
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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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: Thorndike Press 2008
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1996
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Summary: Mayhem ensues when young physicist Jonathan Derry accidentally acquires three cassettes containing a computer program of a nearly perfect handicapping system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1982
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Summary: Former jockey Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn't know about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011