Tony Britton
1) Suspect
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Peter Cushing leads a team of research biologists who may be plotting to sell government secrets to a foreign power.
2) The danger
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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.
3) Twice shy
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A computerized horse-betting system falls into Jonathan Derry's hands—and unless he returns it to the rightful owners, the odds of his survival are slim to none.
4) Jamaica Inn
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The coachman tried to warn young Mary Yellan away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But May chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and foreboding Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. Mary never imagined that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being...
6) Comeback
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Peter Darwin, a First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns to England from Tokyo. On the way he stops in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back to Gloucestershire. He has to use all his diplomatic skills to unravel cruel fates which befall racehorses.
7) Bonecrack
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In charge of his father's stables after a grisly accident lands the old man in the hospital, Neil Grifton finds himself brutally assaulted and abducted and forced to make a tough decision about the business. --
8) Longshot
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To John Kendall it seemed a good idea to throw in his job in order to write a novel. Ten months later it seems an equally good idea to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a National Hunt racehorse trainer. By the end of the commission he will need to summon up all his survival skills.
9) Nerve
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From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a jockey investigates the source of the rumors threatening his career (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Rob Finn is a talented young jockey on the rise, though nothing can help him rise above the...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Rob Finn is a talented young jockey on the rise, though nothing can help him rise above the...
10) Trial run
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Someone or something called Alyosha is linked to the mysterious death of a member of the German Riding Team and threatens the safety of England's prime equestrian who is competing in the Moscow Olympics, and Randall Drew is sent by the British Royal Family to Russia to investigate.
11) For kicks
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Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke has resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes--and learns that men who would give drugs to horses would do much worse to human beings. Reprint.
12) Forfeit
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From a New York Times bestseller, "a superb thriller . . . terrific" about a sportswriter who risks his own life investigating a suspicious death (San Francisco Chronicle).
Dick Francis, Edgar-Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
When reporter Bert Chekov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone is suspicious. Chekov's column had recently recommended some 'can't-lose' horses,...
13) Knockdown
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Under the commission of an affluent American, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham bids on a distinctive horse. But when a blow to the head immediately follows the auction, Dereham suspects another form of gambling might be at play.
14) Slay-ride
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From a New York Times–bestselling "master of crime fiction and equine thrills," a private eye investigates the suspicious death of a horseman (Newsday).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Champion jockey Robert Sherman has disappeared right before his wife was about to give birth. And right before he was sure to win the National. A coincidence?
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15) Jamaica Inn
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From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review).
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before...
On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before...