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Author:
Dick Francis
Reader: Martin Jarvis
The genteel sport of kings turns deadly when murder leaps out of the starting gate. Sid Halley, jockey turned detective, investigates the shooting death of a winning rider – and he also is hired to find out if races are being fixed. His inquiry draws him deep into the dark side of the race game. The author's first book since the death of his wife/collaborator in 2000. "Bravura reading... [Jarvis's] performance and timing are specifically aimed at the listener's entertainment."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 09/26/2006
ISBN: 9780143059219
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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, a probe that drags him ever deeper into the dark underside of the racing game. Simultaneous.
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Author Bio:
After serving six years in the Royal Air Force, including three years as a fighter pilot in World War II, Dick Francis followed in his father's footsteps to become a champion jockey, winning over 350 races. He won numerous awards and titles during his career, including Champion Jockey in 1953 and 1954. In the 1956 Grand National Steeplechase, Francis was only a few lengths from winning the race he had entered for the eighth time, but with no one in his path, his horse collapsed just before the finish line, prompting him to call the event "both the high point and low point of my career as a jockey." Soon afterwards he began working on his autobiography, "The Sport of Queens", published in 1957, the same year he retired from racing.
Francis had found a new calling, as a racing correspondant for the "London Sunday Express". He published his first novel, "Dead Cert", in 1962, and has continued writing mystery novels and short stories based in the world of horse racing. His protagonists, who range from local jockeys to international spies, often suffer brutal, torturous situations and must battle to free themselves and see justice served. He and his wife, Mary, have been married for more than 50 years.
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