Win, Place, or Show

By Dick Francis

Book Overview

A hard fall took hotshot jockey Sid Halley out of the horse racing game, leaving him with a crippled hand, a broken heart, and a desperate need for a new job. In Odds Against, he lands a position with a detective agency. His first case brings him up against a field of thoroughbred criminals, and the odds against him are making it a long shot that he'll even survive.
Whip Hand finds Halley haunted by his glory days, although he still finds a certain satisfaction in solving a case. Hired by the wife of one of England's top racehorse trainers, Halley needs to figure out why her husband's most promising horses have been performing so poorly, and winds up haunted by more than just memories.
In Come to Grief, Halley becomes convinced that one of his closest friends-and one of the racing world's most beloved figures--is behind a series of shockingly violent acts. No one wants to believe that Ellis Quint could be guilty, so the public and press are turning their wrath against Halley instead. Now he's facing opposition at every turn-and finding danger lies straight ahead.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 042519972X
• ISBN13: 9780425199725
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 642 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

horseworld

As usual Dick Francis is up to date with his book(s). Whatever the story, it will keep you reading. If you are an horselover you feel even more love fir it.

Unexpected

I didn't realize that this was an anthology of three stories that I had previously read but I enjoyed re-reading all of them.

DICK FRANCIS REDUX

We can thank the popularity of Francis at the time of COME TO GRIEF AND SHATTERED, both books having Sid Halley in them, that the book club gave us a hardcover edition of WIN, PLACE OR SHOW. All three of these novels were past best sellers and reading them for the first time or rereading them as the case may be is something most Dick Francis fans will enjoy. So put your money down on this book to Win, Place, or Show. Semper Fi.