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Wild Horses
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 338 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092008-03-29
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The New York Times Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes a thrilling novel about the illusion of film — and the reality of murder.
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Slay Ride
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092008-03-22
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When a champion jockey disappears — right before a big race and the birth of his child — Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.
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Rat Race
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2006 Страниц: 291 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20092009-09-27
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Matt Shore is a substitute pilot assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track. They're nervous, but Matt's not. That is, until he manages an emergency landing minutes before the plane explodes. Matt doesn't think anything else can possibly go wrong. Then he finds himself caught up in a rat race of danger that puts him on the wrong side of the odds..
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Hot Money
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 341 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20112012-05-06
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Malcolm Pembroke has the gold — and five ex-wives and nine children. When his least likable ex-wife meets violent death, Malcolm begins to worry about his own neck. Malcolm calls on his son Ian to protect him from his nearest — if not always dearest — relatives, and Ian comes up with the critical clue in the dark Pembroke past of greed, hate, lust and revenge.
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Banker
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2010 Страниц: 308 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122011-12-20
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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 a deadly deal of violence and murder.
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Crossfire
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2011 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 11 августа 20132013-05-26
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Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Returning home, to his mother — a racehorse trainer and the 'First Lady' of racing — Tom discovers the training business is on the edge, and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly, battlefield where his military skills are tested... kill or be killed?
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Nerve
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20122010-09-17
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A man doesn't publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. But Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted envy...
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Oxford Bookworms Library 4: Reflex
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Oxford University Press Издательство: Oxford University Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20112012-03-19
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The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger — and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win — but sometimes he is told to lose. Why? And what is the mystery about the photographer, George Millace, who has just died in a car crash? Philip Nore knows the answer to the first question, and he wants to find out the answer to the second. But as he begins to learn George Millace's secrets, he realizes that his own life is in danger.
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Enquiry
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 19 апреля 20112009-10-11
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No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards' Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he's been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail... Hughes' own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful — and violent — men know the sordid secret. And they'll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option...
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Reflex (New Edition)
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20102009-07-21
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Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is Millace is dead — and Nore has discvoered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known, and abused by a trainer he knows only too well, Nore is no stranger to shabby morals. And when he begins to decipher the dead man's photographs, he uncovers corruption on a scale he had never imagined...
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The Danger
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2007 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 04 июля 20082009-07-11
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A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a south Coast beach and the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal — kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey and the little boy an only son of a race horse owner. A picture of the person behind this interanational chain of crime starts to emerge — a lover of Verdi, a man with a cool and calculating brain and an aficionado of the racing world. Andrew Doublas, brought in to advise and help the vicitms and their families, proceeds with all his customary diplomacy and courage. Only to find himeself playing a dangerous part: the role usually reserved for his clients...
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Dead Heat
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20102009-06-11
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‘I wondered if I was dying. I wasn’t afraid to die, but such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon’. The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner at the Hay Net — the racing town’s favourite Michelin-starred restaurant — founded by Max Moreton, something of a local celebrity. Spending the night retching in the throes of agony is the last thing Max expected of the evening. But much worse is to come…his food is suspected of putting twenty-four dinner guests in hospital. Within hours, Max’s restaurant is forcibly closed, his reputation teeters on the brink of ruin, and a court case looms. But the day is far from over, for soon Max Moreton finds himself desperately fighting for more than just his livelihood…
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For Kicks
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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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.
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Field of Thirteen
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 20082008-03-12
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A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
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Enquiry
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092007-04-24
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A closed-door enquiry has found a jockey guilty of the lowest possible crime--throwing a race for money. His reputation scarred, he's begun his own investigation--but asking the wrong questions just might get him killed.
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Decider
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 23 октрября 20092005-12-16
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Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.
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Trial Run
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2004 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 27 сентября 20092007-04-24
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Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the Russian royal family--but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.
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Break In
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082006-12-10
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Steeplechase jockey Christmas «Kit» Fielding has had more than his share of close calls both on and off the course. But trouble hits close to home when a grudge between his family and his sister's in-laws turns into a blood feud.
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Forfeit
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092009-03-28
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When reporter Bert Checkov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder. But there's no such thing as a sure thing.
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Proof
Автор: Dick Francis Жанр: Penguin Group Издательство: Penguin Group Год: 2005 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 9 февраля 20092007-10-21
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Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party…literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion—and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.
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