New York: G.P.Putman's Sons, 2014. Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he’s tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was...
New York: G.P.Putman's Sons, 2014. Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he’s tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was...
When young investment banker Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing, he finds his life in business blown to smithereens. For suddenly the multimillion dollar loan he arranges to finance the purchase of a champion racehorse is threatened by an apparent defect in the animal. Then, as Tim desperately searches for answers, he falls headlong into...
Классический детектив на английском языке: BOLT (русское название "Бойня").
Kit Fielding's patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband, Roland de Brescou, is being threatened by a business partner. And to enforce the threat, all the Princess's best runners are wantonly being destroyed - shot by a bolt.
The only person she can turn to is Kit, but he has problems...
This thriller, set in Newmarket, centres around Neil Griffon who is abducted by two ruthless men. When he is set free he is the victim of vicious threats, weird extortion, and a nerve-wracking war of attrition.
Классический детектив на английском языке Дика Фрэнсиса Come To Grief ("Дорога скорби") - третья книга в серии про Сида Холли.
Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back. In Come to Grief he faces new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions.
Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he — and...
For millionaire jockey Alan York, winning is a bonus. For Joe Nantwich, victory means no cushy backhanders; and for Bill Davidson, front running on strongly fancied Admiral, triumph is an imposter. It means murder – his own. Turning private detective, York uses Joe's underworld connections to go on the trail of the killers – only to draw a series of blanks. But when ambushed by a...
Reporter James Tyrone takes on an additional assignment in order to cover the expenses that help support his invalid wife. But he finds himself with more than just an inside scoop on the Lamplighter steeplechase after a friend's death (suicide? ). It seems that just too many pre-post favorites never make it to the starting gate and James himself almost becomes a loser after...
"Fast-paced, meticulously plotted.Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis. " SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Travel writer John Kendall didn't think he was doing anything too out of the ordinary when he tramped off to rural England for an interview with a successful race horse trainer. Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that completing the book will be tricky at best. In...
New York: Penguin, 2003.
Впервые роман был опубликован в 1981 году.
Longtime jockey Philip Nore suspects that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder - and unravels some nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder. (The Goodreads review)
New York: Penguin, 2003
Впервые роман был опубликован в 1981 году.
Longtime jockey Philip Nore suspects that a racetrack photographer's fatal accident was really murder - and unravels some nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder. (The Goodreads review)
Классический детектив на английском языке Дика Фрэнсиса RISK ("Риск").
Roland Britten, accountant and champion steeplechase jockey, wakes to confusion. He's cold, blind, and can't find his hands. Something above prevents him from sitting up, and a rumbling din fills his hearing and rattles his bones. Obviously, he surmises, it is pitch-dark and he is bound near som kind of...
New York: Berkley Books, 2005
Впервые роман был опубликован в 2000 году.
This book has glass-blower Gerard Logan trying to find out what happened to a tape sent him by his friend Martin Stukely. It doesn't have much to do with horses, other than that Martin is a jockey who dies when his horse trips during a race at the beginning of the book and that Gerard will create a trophy...
New York: Berkley Books, 2005
Впервые роман был опубликован в 2000 году.
This book has glass-blower Gerard Logan trying to find out what happened to a tape sent him by his friend Martin Stukely. It doesn't have much to do with horses, other than that Martin is a jockey who dies when his horse trips during a race at the beginning of the book and that Gerard will create a trophy...
A horse story - in occasional stretches, a mystery - certainly, but primarily a supersized action-suspense novel featuring several backgrounds and situations and you can get them all together via Edward Lincoln, family man and nephew of the courageously dying Nerissa, film star - muy hombre, and patron of the track. Nerissa sends him to South Africa to see why her string of...
Издательство не указано. 1972 - 234 c. На английском языке.
Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, has pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to do some investigating - she's afraid someone is tampering with...
Young Tor Kelsey, competent, race-horse wise, and independently wealthy, works for undercover security at the English Jockey Club. "Loaned" to the Canadian Jockey Club, he spies on charming but slippery British extortionist Julius Apollo Filmera horse flesh aficionadoaboard the first-ever Transcontinental Mystery Race Train. During the week-long trip, put together to promote...
Ex-jockey and private investigator Sid Halley is approached by the wife of an elite racehorse trainer, begging his help in figuring out why her husband's most promising horses have been performing so poorly. At first Halley thinks she's overreacting and the losing streak is just dumb luck. But now he's beginning to think it's something far more dangerous.
Зарубежный детектив (англ.)
В город своего детства приезжает кинорежиссерТомас Лайон снимать фильм основанный на реальной истории хизни и трагической смерти молодой женщины,произошедшее почти 30 лет назад. Но прошлое неумолимо вторгается в настоящее. Томас, ненароком разворошивший осиное гнездо, вплотную подбирается к разгадке убийства.
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