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Feb 14, 2010 · Sun 14 Feb 2010 11.53 EST. Dick Francis, who has died aged 89, was a unique figure, a champion steeplechase jockey who, without any previous apparent literary bent, became an international...
Feb 15, 2010 · Dick Francis, whose notable but blighted career as a champion steeplechase jockey for the British royal family was eclipsed by a second, more brilliant career as a popular thriller writer, died...
Feb 21, 2019 · Dick Francis died in 2010 at the age of 89, on Grand Cayman, where they’d moved for Mary’s health. Over his career, Francis won the Edgar for best novel three separate times in three different decades, for Forfeit (1970), Whip Hand (1981), and Come to Grief (1996), and in 1996 also won the MWA’s Grand Master Award.
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May 17, 2018 · Come to Grief (1995) Overview. The name Dick Francis is synonymous with thrillers and horse racing. A former steeplechase champion, Francis. has used his thorough knowledge of the “sport of kings” as the basis for almost all of the thirty-odd novels he has produced since 1962.
Feb 15, 2010 · Feb. 15, 2010 12 AM PT. Dick Francis, a champion steeplechase jockey in Britain who became a bestselling mystery writer, died Sunday at his home in the Cayman Islands. He was 89. Ruth Cairns, a...
Feb 14, 2010 · Sun 14 Feb 2010 11.54 EST. The bestselling thriller writer Dick Francis, has died at the age of 89, his family said today. Francis, a former champion jockey from Oxfordshire, sold more than 60m...
Feb 15, 2010 · Dick Francis, a champion steeplechase jockey in Britain who became a bestselling mystery writer, died Sunday at his home in the Cayman Islands. He was 89. Ruth Cairns, a spokeswoman for...
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