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Comeback

Dick Francis. Fawcett Books, $6.99 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-449-21956-0

His 30th novel, an 11-week PW bestseller in cloth, displays Francis's trademarks: seamless plotting, believable characters, suspense and a bang-on horse-racing setting, in this case featuring a veterinary surgeon plagued by a series of mysterious equine deaths. (Apr.)