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For Kicks / Odds Against / Flying Finish / Bonecrack / In the Frame - Selected Works, Vol. 1 Author:Dick Francis Flying Finish -- Henry Grey was an amateur jockey and pilot. But when he decided to abandon his desk-bound job for an active career in the bloodstock market, he found there was more to couriering valuable horses around the world than he'd ever suspected. — Bonecrack -- At midnight, Neil Griffon's home is ... more »broken into and he is abducted by masked men.
When he wakes up, hours later, Neil discovers that unless he cooperates, his kidnappers will destroy his father's racing stable, his precious horses and even Neil himself. Returning to the stables, Neil can tell no one about his ordeal, or his kidnappers' threats of violence if he does not comply with their demands. Trapped, Neil refuses to surrender - and devises an ingenious scheme to beat his kidnappers at their own game . . .
For Kicks -- Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had 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 are capable of doing much worse to human beings.
In the Frame -- Charles Todd -- a renowned painter of horses -- is shocked when he turns up at his cousin Donald’s house for a weekend visit to find his cousin’s young wife dead on the floor -- and Donald the police’s prime suspect. Determined to prove Donald’s innocence, Todd trails a set of clues from England to Australia to New Zealand, only to realize that someone is trailing him. Someone with every intention of taking him out of the picture for good…
Odds Against (Sid Halley, Bk 1) -- Champion jockey Sid Halley retired from racing when his hand was smashed in a fall. Now he works as a private detective - which is proving to be no less dangerous to life and limb.
Recuperating from a bullet wound, Sid is asked by his father-in-law to investigate some potentially shady activity involving Seabury racecourse and a ruthless property dealer. But the closer Sid gets to those determined to get their hands on Seabury, the more he finds himself in harm's way. The odds are against him - but that's exactly when Sid is at his best . . .« less