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1) Decider
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Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
2) Nerve
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English
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"A man doesn't shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Matthews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticking out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe." -- Cover.
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A stunning successor to Whip Hand, starring ex-champion-jockey-turned-investigator Sid Halley. Having exposed an adored racing figure as a monster, Sid must testify at the man's trial. But, on the morning of his appearance, a tragic suicide shatters the proceedings and jars Sid's conscience, leading him to believe that there's more to the death than has yet come to light.
4) Odds against
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English
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When a crippled hand forces jockey Sid Halley to turn to another career, he becomes involved in saving a racecourse from a greedy land grabber.
5) Whip hand
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810L
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English
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Sid Halley, now a private investigator with a bionic hand, finds himself uncovering corruption in the racing world.
6) Shattered
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When glassblower Gerard Logan investigates a friend's death after a racecourse fall, he finds more hazards in his path than he ever thought possible.
7) Wild horses
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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.
8) Under orders
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Death at the races is not uncommon. But three in one day, including the Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse and a champion jockey, is more than enough to raise suspicions. Sid Halley finds there are several reasons why someone had set their sights on Huv Walker. Now Sid himself, a former jockey-turned detective, could be next on a killer's to-do list.
9) Straight
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940L
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English
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Derek is thrust into trouble and danger after the death of his brother. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy.
10) Dead heat
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English
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When many guests fall victim to severe food poisoning at Max's catering of a private affair and when a bomb rips through the private boxes at the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes where Max has prepared a luncheon, Max Moreton, a rising culinary star, vows to protect his name and himself.
11) Silks
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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.
12) To the hilt
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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.--
13) Even money
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Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a book-maker so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings at Royal Ascot. When a man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told that both his parents died when he was a baby. Barely an hour later, his father stabbed by an unknown assailant. Before dying, he warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds...
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