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This "convincing and memorable"mystery is "among Dick Francis's best," says the Cincinnati Post. And we're sure readers will agree.
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...
* A New York Times bestselling author whose reputation is virtually unmatched among modern mystery writers
Another "first class"* thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Field Of Thirteen.--Baltimore Sun
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"Challenging....First class."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Sid Halley, once a jockey, was now a private invesigator with only one good hand left after a horse fell on the other. His new life, though, could never erase the haunting memories of his past glories. But it was only when the wife of one of England's top trainers came to beg his help in preventing foul play at the race track that Sid Halley began to know what being haunted really was.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This "convincing and memorable"mystery is "among Dick Francis's best," says the Cincinnati Post. And we're sure readers will agree.
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...
* A New York Times bestselling author whose reputation is virtually unmatched among modern mystery writers
Another "first class"* thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Field Of Thirteen.--Baltimore Sun
Inside Flap Copy
"Challenging....First class."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Sid Halley, once a jockey, was now a private invesigator with only one good hand left after a horse fell on the other. His new life, though, could never erase the haunting memories of his past glories. But it was only when the wife of one of England's top trainers came to beg his help in preventing foul play at the race track that Sid Halley began to know what being haunted really was.... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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I TOOK THE battery out of my arm and fed it into the recharger, and only realized I'd done it when ten seconds later the fingers wouldn't work. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (