Dick Francis, Author Putnam $24.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-399-14562-9
With his 40th novel in as many years, grand master Dick Francis isn't up to his usual high standards, but fans know that even a subpar Francis is in the 95th percentile. Here the typical Francis hero is a young Englishman of a vanishing breed: smart,
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-13414-2
The British author's 27th novel boasts the combination of subject matter and prose style that have made him an international bestseller: thoroughbred horses and heroes, heart palpitations, speed and comedy. Heading the large, colorful cast, narrator
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-13179-0
Piggott, Britain's top rider for some three decades, retired in 1985 at age 50 and is now a trainer. Descended from trainers and jockeys on both sides of his family, he seemed destined for a career in racing and began as an apprentice at 12. Two...
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Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-449-22139-6
Francis's first-rate thriller about the British horse-racing scene--a 10-week PW bestseller--portrays a former steeplechase jockey who learns that his horse transportation firm is implicated in a drug smuggling operation. (Feb.)
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Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (336p) 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...
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Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-449-21720-7
Suspicions about his brother's death lead a steeplechase jockey into a mystery involving diamond trading, a horse named Dozen Roses and secret computer passwords. Francis's 28th novel ``neither surprises nor disappoints,'' said PW; though consistent,
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Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (348p) ISBN 978-0-449-21719-1
To catch a murderer, an undercover agent for the British Jockey Club poses as a waiter on the ``Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.'' ``There is no limit to the thrills along the way, and no way of predicting the stunning denouement,'' lauded
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Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-20754-3
The narrator of Francis's 26th mystery is Tony Beach, a young widower who fights his grief by keeping busy at his wine shop and by socializing. Eventually he teams up with private detective Gerard McGregor to find the hijackers of several trucks of...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-399-13121-9
Francis's 25th thriller is suavely handled and full of suspense. The narrator, Kit Fielding, wins handily as a steeple-chase jockey and enjoys the friendship of the princess who owns the horses he races. But trouble threatening his twin Holly and...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-13470-8
By now, regular readers of Francis's novels know exactly what to expect: a carefully plotted mystery woven through the world of horseracing, with a few twists and a hero who can be depended upon to do the right thing. On those counts, his 28th novel
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Adult $17.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-399-13226-1
In his smashing sequel to Break In, Francis shows his old racing colors to advantage. Champion jockey Kit Fielding again proves his mettle when Henri Nanterre, the ruthless business partner of his fiancee's uncle, tries to convert their road...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $17.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-399-13349-7
Francis has another winner, as skillfully constructed as his previous bestsellers. This time, amateur British jockey Ian Pembroke tells what happens after the murder of his father Malcolm's fifth wife, Moira. A rapacious, sharp-tongued woman, she...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $25.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-399-14660-2
Francis's latest may be one of his less memorable rides, but even at 80, the old master proves he can still go all out in the final stretch. The hero here is Gerard Logan, a dashing English bachelor who owns and operates his own glassblowing shop in
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Berkeley Audio $24.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-399-14434-9
Though nearly two score of his novels have come to print, Francis has published only eight short stories in his 41 years as a bestselling author. That octet, composed mostly in the 1970s and initially appearing in various journals (Sports...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14302-1
He may be turning 77 this year, but Francis (To the Hilt) narrates his new thriller through the eyes of a 17-year-old without missing a step--and, as usual, offers a mini-course in a slightly arcane profession along the way. The profession is...
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Dick Francis, Author Jove $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14185-0
The ""hilt"" of Francis's delightful 35th thriller refers to the jewel-encrusted, solid gold handle of the ceremonial sword of Scotland's would-be king, Bonnie Prince Charlie. A descendant of the Scottish earl to whom the prince gave the hilt,...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14082-2
Francis fans will welcome the return of narrator Sid Halley (Odds Against; Whip Hand) as the one-handed PI and ex-jockey takes on a case of multiple mutilations of thoroughbreds; unnervingly, the amputation of the animals' front left hooves mirrors...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $22.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-399-13974-1
For his 33rd-and quite splendid-novel, Francis (Decider) adds to his usual horse-racing setting a backdrop involving feature filmmaking. As usual, though, it's murder most foul and mayhem most brilliant for this English master. In the Suffolk city...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-13871-3
Dick Francis knows horses, but in this deeply satisfying novel of intrigue, he shows that he also has a handle on architecture, construction, even crowd control. Narrator Lee Morris, 35, is an architect/builder specializing in restoring ``ruins''...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13670-2
His 30th novel shows once again why Dick Francis ( Longshot ) is a major brand name in the thriller genre; the components here include seamless and swift plotting, a wonderful mix of believable characters, suspense and a bang-on horse-racing...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam $19.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13581-1
The reliable Francis ( Straight ) delivers again, this time in a thriller featuring young author John Kendall. Kendall writes survival manuals for an adventure-travel agency, but has taken time off to pen a novel. When money runs thin, he agrees to...
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Dick Francis, Author Putnam Publishing Group $263.4 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-19170-1
Archetypal Francis hero Freddie Croft is a 35-year-old former champion steeplechase jockey, knowledgeable about the British racing milieu and tolerant of its denizens, a bit of a loner, keen on honor and notably phlegmatic. His phlegm is sorely...
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Dick Francis, Author . Putnam $25.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-399-15400-3
Beloved series character Sid Halley, a champion jockey, makes a welcome return in the latest fast-paced crime novel from bestseller Francis (Come to Grief
). When a crippling injury forces Halley into retirement, he begins a second career as a PI....
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Dick Francis, Author, Tony Britton, Read by Audio Partners $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-135-9
English actor Britton's rich, chameleonlike voice immediately immerses the listener in the intricate plotting and well-drawn characters that typify the work of Francis. Britton (The Day of the Jackal, etc.) expertly tells the story of narrator...
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Dick Francis, Author, Felix Francis, Author . Putnam $25.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-399-15476-8
MWA Grand Master Francis's first collaboration with his son Felix, a former physics teacher who researched many of his father's previous bestsellers, introduces an engaging hero, though longtime fans may find certain plot elements, like an
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Dick Francis and Felix Francis, Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15681-6
In the enjoyable fourth and final collaboration between Francis (1920–2010) and son Felix (after Even Money), the army career of Capt. Thomas Forsyth abruptly ends when an IED in Afghanistan blows off one of his feet, leaving him with a prosthetic...
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Dick Francis, Author, Felix Francis, Author . Putnam $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-15591-8
The third collaboration between bestseller Francis and son Felix (after Silks
), a taut crime thriller, features an especially sympathetic hero. Bookmaker Ed Talbot is struggling with his wife's mental illness, even as technology threatens to...
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Dick Francis, Author, Felix Francis, Author . Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15533-8
After collaborating on Dead Heat
(2007), bestseller Francis and his son, Felix, deliver another gripping thriller with a thoroughbred racing backdrop. Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a...
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Dick Francis, Author, John Welcome, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $19.95 (221p) ISBN 978-0-393-02879-9
This 14-story collection of horseracing stories by British and American writers will provide pleasant reading for fans of the ``sport of kings.'' Represented here are such familiar names as Arthur Conan Doyle (``Silver Blaze,'' the story in which...
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Dick Francis, Author, John Welcome, Editor, Dick Francis, Editor W. W. Norton & Company $42 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-03102-7
Most of the 14 tales collected here by British authors Francis ( Longshot ) and Welcome ( Grand National ) are notable for their charm. The two American entries, Damon Runyon's 1930s ``Pick the Winner'' and Gordon Grand's pre-WW I ``A Night at the...
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