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1) Longshot
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Language
English
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When he is hired to write the biography of a racehorse trainer, author John Kendall encounters more than he bargained for as he stumbles into a web of danger and death in rural England.
2) Derby Day
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Language
English
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Nominated for the Man Booker Prize, an exquisite tale of romance and rivalry, gambling and greed, from one of England's finest writers As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people
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English
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A romantic thriller set in the world of horse racing. It begins when Kelsey Byden discovers her mother--supposedly dead for 20 years--is in jail for killing her lover. The mother owns a racing stable in Virginia whose neighbor is handsome Gabe Slater. Kelsey and Gabe's meeting leads to rivalry, love and murder.--
4) Black Gold
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
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A heroic, small-boned horse with a will to win is finally ridden to glory by his devoted jockey.
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Sid Halley novels volume 3
Language
English
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Retired jockey Sid Halley is stunned by a suicide that disrupts the racketeering trial in which he as about to testify.
6) Under orders
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Series
Sid Halley novels volume 4
Language
English
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"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than one eyebrow." It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Last seen in 1995's Come to Grief, former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well-but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely...
7) Crisis
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English
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When a mysterious fire at a stable kills six thoroughbred horses as well as a human being that no one can account for, Harrison Foster investigates the Chadwick Family, a dysfunctional horse racing dynasty.
Harrison Foster, crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables kills six very valuable horses. When human remains are found among the equestrian ones, all the stable staff are accounted for. So...
8) Banker
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Investment banker Tim Ekaterin thought arranging the purchase of a champion racehorse was a sure thing--but he ever gambled on getting caught up in murder ..."--P. [4] of cover.
9) Triple crown
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 6
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English
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Jefferson Hinkley is back in the newest thriller in the Dick Francis tradition, this time on a special mission to the United States to investigate a conspiracy involving the biggest horse races in the country. Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization an informant who is passing on confidential...
10) Bolt
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Series
Kit Fielding novels volume 2
Publisher
G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
In Kit Fielding's breakneck world of steeplechase racing, the ultimate catastrophe strikes: someone is shooting horses with a weapon fiendishly called a "humane killer." Kit must stop the murdering madness, and everyone in his upper-crust circle becomes a suspect--the princely rival who's trying to woo his woman, the personal enemy bent on ruining Kit's family, the black-market arms dealer whose plans could imperil the globe. Such dire situations...
11) Break in
Author
Series
Kit Fielding novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2005, ©1986
Language
English
Description
Slurs in a gossip column jeopardize the business of Holly and Bobby Allardeck and Holly's twin brother, steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding, searches for the person behind the plot.
12) Straight
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
The death of his brother Greville--an enigmatic figure with numerous enemies--bodes ill for Derek Franklin, who inherits numerous aspects of his life, including its dangers.
13) To win her favor
Author
Series
Belle Meade Plantation novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
14) Shattered
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Gerard Logan, a talented glassblower, is the target of a band of criminals who think he knows where to find a valuable videotape that is somehow connected to his late friend, jockey Martin Stukely.
15) Iced
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Series
Dick Francis novels volume 10
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour. Finding himself in St Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when high-class horseracing...
16) Dead heat
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Language
English
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Max Moreton is a rising culinary star and his Newmarket restaurant, The Hay Net, has brought him great acclaim and a widening circle of admirers. But when nearly all the guests who enjoyed one of his meals at a private catered affair fall victim to severe food poisoning, his kitchen is shuttered and his reputation shattered. Scrambling to meet his next obligation, an exclusive luncheon for forty American sponsors of the year's first classic race at...
17) Kentucky heat
Author
Series
Kentucky series (Fern Michaels) volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Nealy Coleman Diamond struggles with her Kentucky horse farm and her estranged relationship with her two children. Into this mix comes Hatch Littletree, her ex-husband's law partner.
18) To the hilt
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain is called to London to save his family from financial ruin. It happens after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds. Far from being a babe in the woods, the painter does an excellent job.
19) The danger
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
When Alessia Cenci, a young champion jockey, is kidnapped in Bologna, agent Andrew Douglas is sent to secure her release. For Andrew, the bungling of the Italian police is only the first in a chain of catastrophic events he cannot control.
20) Hugger mugger
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English
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Spenser is back and embroiled in a deceptively dangerous and multi-layered case: someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and the Boston P.I. travels to Georgia to protect the two-year old destined to become the next Secretariat. When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of the Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hardly say no: he's been doing pro bono work for so...
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