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1) Enquiry
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English
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"No jockey like being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes' career looks doomed. He knows he's been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail." Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 1969.
2) Longshot
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Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When he is hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
3) The danger
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English
Description
Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci, golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew's caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of victims.
4) In the frame
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Series
Lexile measure
830L
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English
Description
The murder of his cousin's wife involves an English painter in the pursuit of an Australian art forging gang.
5) Bolt
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Series
Kit Fielding novels volume 2
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English
Description
n this sequel to "Break In", Kit Fielding, champion jockey, attracts trouble on all fronts. He has problems with racing and his fiancee, as well as the old Fielding-Allerdeck feud.
6) Wild horses
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English
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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.
7) To the hilt
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Series
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English
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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.--
8) For kicks
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Series
Lexile measure
1030L
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English
Formats
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a horse breeder goes undercover to investigate a horse doping scheme (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...
9) Break in
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Series
Lexile measure
900L
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English
Description
Slurs in a gossip column jeopardize the business of Holly and Bobby Allardeck. Holly's twin brother, steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding, searches for the person behind the plot.
10) Reflex
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English
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When a fellow racetrack photographer dies, Philip Nore has many questions about his death. He learns quickly the answers lie hidden in some discarded rolls of film. Philip unwittingly becomes the killer's next victim.
11) Proof
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English
Description
Incomparable New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis offers a compelling tale of fine living, fast horses, and shattering suspense...
Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun’s over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion—and sets off a mystery that’s an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue,...
Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun’s over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion—and sets off a mystery that’s an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue,...
12) Slay-ride
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
Description
"When a champion jockey disappears--right before a big race and the birth of his child--British investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play."--Cover p. [4].
13) Knockdown
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling“master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a former jockey takes on the crooked world of horse dealing (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to...
14) Twice shy
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Series
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English
Description
Jonathan Derry is given a computerized horse betting system that can make the owner a rich man- or a dead one. A high speed thriller with a twisting plot, wicked villain and action.
15) Forfeit
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English
Description
Jim Tyrone is commissioned to do a sports story on the Lamplighter horse race. He suddenly finds himself involved in a mysterious death and a fight against the bookmakers who have been tampering with the odds.
16) Banker
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Series
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English
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An investment banker arranges the purchase of a champion racehorse and gets caught up in murder in this New York Times bestseller that's “fraught with violence, conspiracy and, of course, horses” (The Boston Globe).
Tim Ekaterin raised millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Sandcastle, a champion racer, only to discover an apparent defect in the horse. Investigating further, Ekaterin learns that the...
Tim Ekaterin raised millions of dollars to finance the purchase of Sandcastle, a champion racer, only to discover an apparent defect in the horse. Investigating further, Ekaterin learns that the...
17) Even money
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Series
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English
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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...
18) The edge
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Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Tor Kelsey, an undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club, is assigned to protect guests on "The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train," individuals whose safety is imperiled by real-life murder and mayhem.
19) Come to grief
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Series
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English
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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.
20) Odds against
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Series
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English
Description
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.
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