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Well-plotted and full of atmospheric charm, Reflex demonstrates the fine style that earned Dick Francis the title of Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. This fast-paced story of a jockey’s courageous murder investigation exposes the politics and corruption at the heart of the British racing world. Philip Nore has no greater ambition than to successfully complete the last years of his career as a jockey, even if it means bending the rules a bit. But when pushed, Philip discovers that there really are a few other things that matter to him.

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  • Odds Against

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It’s amazing what bodily injury can do for a man. A fall from a racehorse left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career. It was a bullet wound that helped him find one.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

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  • Twice Shy

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Dick Francis’ witty blend of horseplay and mystery is an incredible combination. As a result, each of his equestrian novels gallops onto best-seller lists. In Twice Shy, Dick Francis whips up a fast-paced race through the risky world of horse betting. It begins when, offering little explanation, a friend thrusts some cassette tapes into Jonathan Derry’s hands. But when the young man tries to play them, he realizes that, instead of “Oklahoma!”, he’s been given taped computer programs.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Another Dick Francis masterpiece!

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  • Blood Sport

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  • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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When English agent Gene Hawkins told his boss he'd forego his vacation to search for millionaire Dave Teller's prized missing stallion, he didn't know his retainer would include the attention of his boss's beautiful teenage daughter - or Teller's seldom sober wife. He also didn't know that a trail from London to New York to Las Vegas to California would lead eventually to murder.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Another great listen from Dick Francis!

  • By Mary A. on 03-18-04
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  • Risk

  • By: Dick Francis
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  • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Roland Britten, accountant and amateur jockey, awakens one morning to find he can’t move his hands—because he is tied up with netting, held captive where no light penetrates and no amount of yelling will get any attention. But why?

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • Always a good writer

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  • Silks

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From Dick Francis and his son, Felix, comes Geoffrey Mason - a defense barrister whose true passion is riding his thoroughbred. Mason's two lives collide when a fellow jockey is accused of murdering a colleague with a pitchfork. Mason prefers not to get involved. But soon he is torn between doing what's right - and what will keep him alive.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

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Publisher's Summary

The house was stripped bare of all its treasures. Gone was the furniture, the family silver, the paintings and the antique china. And if that was a shock for Charles Todd, painter of horses, how much more harrowing was the trauma for his cousin Donald, whose house it was and whose young wife lay on the sitting room floor, bloody and dead...

A coincidental meeting with a middle-aged widow sends Charles off to Australia, on the trail of a gang with a fruitful business in forging works of art. In a world of high stakes and tremendous risks, where villains will stop at nothing to achieve their ends, Dick Francis weaves his compelling narrative with the control of a master craftsman.
©1976 Dick Francis (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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  • Tracey
  • craigmore, Australia
  • 11-27-14

framed

What made the experience of listening to In the Frame the most enjoyable?

it is another winner by dick francis good story with a twist

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

it keeps you guessing to the outcome

Which scene was your favorite?

the melbourne trip and hunt for clues

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

when in alice springs the crimes way of dealing with todd

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Another Dick Francis Classic

Another Dick Francis Classic. Great with a fast moving engaging plot, a page turner,a great companion for anyone.

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Sanitised crime

Dick Francis is a reliably consistent author who produces what in the UK would be called 'pot boilers' - great stories which don't tax the mind too much. This book, like all his other works, provides the reader with some highly improbable situations which the hero comes through with flying colours (if not a little bruised). It IS a very easy read (or listen) and there are many twists and turns before the end but in all Dick Francis books the criminal is either the perfect gentleman ("It's a fair cop, gov") or a psychopath getting away with the most outrageous crimes in full public view...and nobody doing a thing about it. In spite of this I always look forward to the next one.

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  • Richard Jones
  • 11-27-17

A decent enough tale

Well read apart from the fact that the police inspector (a major role) had a strong Welsh accent but when he reappeared towards the last couple of chapters he’d turned into a Cockney!
I’d have thought this would have been picked up by the producer.

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  • Mac
  • 10-18-15

top. notch

loved it

a good mix of racing and detective story
Tony britton is a top notch narator