Product Description

Common sense said that the whole idea was crazy . . . but when offered huge sums of money to move to England and help the Earl of October uncover a suspected racehorse dope scandal, Danny Roke finds the proposal intriguing.

Swapping his job as proprietor of an Australian stud farm to work undercover as a stable hand in Yorkshire, Danny soon has his hands full. Whilst the Earl’s attractive daughters Patricia and Elinor draw his attention, he finds himself ever more deeply involved with the vicious swindlers he is out to entrap. And if neither the money nor the swindle will keep his mind on the job, maybe the death of the Earl’s original investigator, Tommy Stapleton, will . . .

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30828 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-06
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author

Dick Francis has written forty-one international bestsellers and is widely acclaimed as one of the world’s finest thriller writers. His awards include the Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University of Boston. In 1996 Dick Francis was made a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement and in 2000 he received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Customer Reviews

Best Book
This is one of the best books that he has written, I would not hesitate to reommend it. The point about diffrent social attidues is just as valid now as it was then. Although not quite as strict now in that area, in other areas it is just as strong if not stonger.

in many of these novels one learns something of interest
I have over the years aquired each of Dick Francis" novels This is a "Blanket" review as I have found that all repay rereading, as a friend of mine once said "one reads them at a gallop first and then again to pick the bones out of them "
and in my case they frequently are read again and again ! Oddly there is a comfort aspect to them apart from the authentic atmosphere !