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In 1989, Dick Francis won the British Crime Writer's Association Cartier Golden Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he's been racking up awards ever since. In 1996, he received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Grand Masters Lifetime Award, and in 2000, the Malice Domestic Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. A former steeplechase jockey, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In Odds Against, ex-jockey Sid Halley investigates a case involving land speculation, stock manipulation, and fraud. In Flying Finish, Henry Grey takes a job as head groom for a horse transport company. While on the job, he discovers an international scheme of intrigue, treason, and the smuggling of classified secrets. In Blood Sport, government security agent Gene Hawkins combines a vacation in the United States with a search for a missing race horse. The journey takes him to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Las Vegas, Nevada. In Rat Race, former commercial pilot Matt Shore is now flying for a small air-taxi service. His plane is blown up on the ground in between stops at race courses, and Shore finds himself in the midst of a horse-insurance swindle.
Four Complete Novels: Odds Against, Flying Finish, Blood Sport, and Rat Race.
Francis, Dick
New York: Avenel Books, 1984.
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First published in 1940, this is the author's third novel. Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard and Sergeant Tommy Salt investigate the murder of Arch Mitford. Several attempts had been made on Archy's life, by a person known to the young man. Archy left a series of clues he was sure would lead police to his murderer, but Archy was too clever by half--the police didn't know what to make of them.
Deed Without a Name
Bowers, Dorothy
Boulder, CO: Rue Morgue Press, 2005.
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First published in 1957. The third novel featuring Inspector Richard Riingwood. The death of a Frenchman at Pentecost College sends Inspector Ringwood and his trusty bloodhound on the trail of a lost schoolboy and his brother.
Gownsman's Gallows
Farrer, Katherine
Boulder, CO: Rue Morgue Press, 2005.
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In 1989, Dick Francis won the British Crime Writer's Association Cartier Golden Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he's been racking up awards ever since. In 1996, he received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Grand Masters Lifetime Award, and in 2000, the Malice Domestic Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement. A former steeplechase jocky, Francis' mysteries all involve horses in some manner, but each has a slightly different twist. In Comeback, British First Secretary Peter Darwin finds that going home again can involve unexpected danger, to himself and to those accompanying him.
Comeback
Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991.
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Third book in Skeggs' art-world mystery series. The Triumph of Bacchus by Titian has been stolen after being loaned to London's Royal Academy. In addition to everyone else looking for the painting, TV journalist Patricia Drew is hoping for a scoop, and former Christie's staffer Tom Shaugnessy has been offered a million pounds to paint a forgery of it. When Drew and Shaugnessy meet, will their different motives bring them together, or put them at odds with each other?
The Triumph of Bacchus
Skeggs, Douglas
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
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Wine merchant and amateur sleuth is enjoying a jaunt to the French wine country when he learns that the daughter of a friend has disappeared. He follows a rumor that the girl is in Spain, and finds himself enmeshed in troubles that span families and generations. A black and white photograph of the author is laid in.
Rough Red
Sylvester, Martin
New York: Villard Books, 1990.
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Winner of the Gold Dagger Award.
The Old English Peep Show
Dickinson, Peter
New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2007.
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The novels in this omnibus edition were previously published. Titles include: The Man Who Was Clever; the Lawless Lady; The Saint Closes the Case; The Avenging Saint; and The Saint vs. Scotland Yard.
The Saint: Five Complete Novels
Charteris, Leslie
New York: Avenel Books, 1983.
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Drawing up wills for old clients is usually cut and dried. For Duncan Hambly, however, it became a cut and disappear. Hambly left his office to prepare a new will for James Grossiter, a cantankerous odl gentleman, but he never got to the Grossiter's house. When Grossiter dies unexpectedly, Carolus Deane steps in to investigate.
Death at Hallows End
Bruce, Leo
Chicago: Chicago Academy Press, 2003.
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Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Stories included are: Strychnine in the Soup; The Crime Wave at Blandings; Ukridge Starts a Bank Account; The Purity of the Turf; The Smile That Wins; The Purification of Rodney Spelvin; Without the Option; The Romance of a Bulb-Squeezer; Aunt Agatha Takes the Count; The Fiery Wooing of Mordred; Ukbridge's Accident Syndicate; Indiscretions of Archie.
Wodehouse on Crime: A Dozen Tales of Fiendish Cunning, edited and with a preface by D. R. Bensen
Wodehouse, P. G.
New York: Barnes & Noble, 1981.
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A group of American tourists cuts short their tour of the Continent after one of their members dies in Switzerland. They return to London, where Doug Perkins, Larkin's Luxury Tour's PR man, tries to salvage the tour, and prevent the death of anyone else on the tour. He's assisted in his endeavor by a Siamese cat named Pandora.
Tourists are for Trapping
Babson, Marian
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.
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What would make an apparently happy suburban housewife write herself love letters, and hire a hitman? Julian Symons has won the the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writers' Association, as well as the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master award.
Something Like a Love Affair
Symons, Julian
New York: Mysterious Press, 1993.
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An American woman dies while vacationing with a group of tourists, and a valuable jewel owned by the woman disappears. Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate.
The Jewel That Was Ours
Dexter, Colin
New York: Crown Publishers, 1991.
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P. D. James has been honred with Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the British Crimewriters Association (the Cartier Golden Dagger), and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar. The Murder Room is a room in a museum dedicated to the years between the world wars. The room includes exhibits on murders that occurred during the featured years. But then a series of new murders takes place which mirror those in the exhibits, and Adam Dalgliesh is called to investigate. Complicating Dalgliesh's life is a woman, Emma Lavenham, with whom Dalgliesh has a personal, romantic, interest.
The Murder Room
James, P. D.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
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Agatha Raisin is back, and this time as the head of her own private investigation firm. She's had more than her share of missing cats, but jumps at the first real case comes her way--the daughter of a wealthy woman has received a death threat. Agatha fends off an attack on the girl, then enlists the aid of her old friend Sir Charles to assist in the case.
The Deadly Dance
Beaton, M. C.
New York: StSt. Martin's Minotaur, 2004.
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The twelfth book in the series. Agatha Raisin is not in the best of moods these days. Her husband has left her, and her best friend has gone off to get married. In an effort to cheer herself up, she takes a vacation in the South Pacific, which is only moderately successful. Back home, Agatha decides to put all that behind her. When the body of a woman wearing a bride's dress is found floating in the river, Agatha investigates--assisted by her new (and handsome) neighbor.
Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
Beaton, M. C.
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002.
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Sophie Mendel is a wartime refugee living in London. Other refugees are dying, but the police don't take the possibility of foul play seriously. When a man living in Sophie's house dies, his son, American Bill Seago, begins to ask why. What he uncovers reveals something evil in the house, raising concerns about Sophie's safety.
The Deadly Side of the Square
Jordan, Lee
New York: Walker & Company, 1988.
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Sophie Mendel is a wartime refugee living in London. Other refugees are dying, but the police don't take the possibility of foul play seriously. When a man living in Sophie's house dies, his son, American Bill Seago, begins to ask why. What he uncovers reveals something evil in the house, raising concerns about Sophie's safety.
The Deadly Side of the Square
Jordan, Lee
New York: Walker & Company, 1988.
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Lori Shepherd has known Aunt Dimity only as a long-time friend and correspondent of her mother. The two had met when Lori's mother worked in London during World War II. After her mother's death, Lori learns that Aunt Dimity has bequeathed her Cotswold cottage to Lori, along with a mysterious journal and a pink flannel bunny. Aunt Dimity Goes West is the twelfth book in the series, and finds Lori, her husband Bill, and their five-year-old twins vacationing in the mountains of Colorado. Lori, who was hoping to find peace and quiet in the mountains, soon finds the vacation spot is not so quiet, and certainly not peaceful.
Aunt Dimity Goes West
Atherton, Nancy
New York: Viking Press, 2007.
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Thorndike Large Print Popular Series edition. CID Detective Inspector William Sylvester investigates a case involving an anonymous letter and an antiques dealer. Then he wins the lottery, and leaves the police force to continue the investigation on his own.
The Rich Detective
Keating, H. R. F.
Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1993.
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