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Dysfunctional families were a subject which he also exploited (Reflex, a baleful grandmother; Hot Money, a multi-millionaire father and serial ex-husband; Decider, the related co-owners of a racecourse).
Mary Margaret Francis (17 June 1924 – 30 September 2000) was a British author who has been credited with an extensive role helping her husband, crime writer Dick Francis, write his novels. She also was a small-business entrepreneur who operated a dress shop and an air taxi service.
Nor did he, however, expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues are pointing towards the killer being close to home - but after five marriages and nine children that still leaves the field wide open.
Dick Francis, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-449-21720-7. Suspicions about his brother's death lead a steeplechase jockey into a mystery involving diamond trading, a horse named...
Sid Halley (John Sidney Halley) is a fictional character in four Dick Francis novels, Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders and two follow-up books by Felix Francis, Refusal and Hands Down. He is a former British jump racing Champion Jockey and private detective.
Dick Francis. Richard Stanley ”Dick” Francis (31. lokakuuta 1920 Lawrenny, Wales, Iso-Britannia – 14. helmikuuta 2010 Grand Cayman, Caymansaaret) oli brittiläinen kirjailija ja jockey. Suosittujen ja palkittujen dekkareidensa lisäksi hänet tunnetaan menestyksekkään kilparatsastusuransa traagisimmasta häviöstä, joka tapahtui vuoden ...
Dick Francis wrote more than forty international bestsellers and was widely acclaimed as one of the world’s finest thriller writers. His awards included the Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Tufts University of Boston.
