Field of Thirteen
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001JJWIG0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Dick Francis never disappoints" according to CC-in-VA. Dick Francis fans will enjoy these stories, although of course there's not as much character development OR varied scenes and action as in one of his full-length novels. The writing is, as always with Francis, excellent. Each story is quite different, and many have a 'twist' at the end that adds to the fun. I found myself thinking about the characters and the plo. Vintage Dick Francis - but beware, it's short stories A Customer I have enjoyed Dick Francis novels for many years. I mail ordered this book, and was somewhat dismayed to discover that it is a collection of short stories - not my favorite format. They are enjoyable, and well written short stories, but there isn't enough room for much character development.. I enjoyed this. The stories were short enough that I Aaron M. Lund I enjoyed this. The stories were short enough that I could read an entire one each night (usually I only get a chapter or two read). Fun to read a pre-Internet/Google/IPhone world story, though there was one story that mentioned a laptop, but was written in 1974. I know an effort was made in this edition to update the $$ amounts to reflect 201x dollars.
A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
One of the pleasures of his stories is witnessing the breadth and variety within Francis's racetrack milieu. "Collision Course" is free of murder but frames a delightful conflict between an out-of-work newspaperman and a bounder whose faux manners threaten to bring him down at the peak of his racing syndicate career. Penalty and more than 30 other horseracing mysteries) pulls together five new tales with eight that have appeared scattered in periodicals over the last three decades. Francis's stories, for the most part, obey Poe's dictum. And the collection ends with a what-if story called "Haig's Death" that examines the consequences of the sudden passing of Christopher Haig, an animal feed consultant and race