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Informationen zum Autor Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races! he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth! the Queen Mother! most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle! he published his autobiography! The Sport of Queens! before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels! a volume of short stories (Field of 13)! and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards! amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre! and three 'best novel' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature! and was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010! at the age of eighty-nine! but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. Zusammenfassung Multi-millionaire Malcolm Pembroke's colourful life has included five wives and nine children. When his fifth wife is murdered! he patches up a quarrel that has been simmering for nearly three years with his favourite son Ian! and asks for help. Ian Pembroke! who detested the fifth wife Moria! agrees to meet his father at Newmarket yearling sales. From here he is instantly whirled into a horrifying race against time to find Moira's murderer before the maniac can strike again. Greed! malice and lethal ploys lie ahead on the rocketing journeyings of father and son as they track the killer remorselessly. Yet they are still able to grab some enjoyment along with the peril as they find time to watch many of the world's top races.
