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1) High stakes
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Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a betrayed race horse owner must get back his stolen thoroughbred(Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Steven Scott may have been a successful, wealthy inventor with no experience in horse racing,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
3) Crossfire
Author
Language
English
Description
Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of duty in Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom returns to his childhood home in Lambourn, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the "First Lady" of racing....
4) Comeback
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Fresh from a Tokyo posting, young British first secretary Peter Darwin decides to vacation in England before beginning his next Foreign Office assignment. Once back home in Gloucestershire, the scene of long-buried childhood memories, Peter unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a veterinary surgeon's racehorse-related woes. As his involvement with the poor man's plight becomes more intense, so do the memories from Peter's past, which convince him...
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