Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald’s house and stumbles on a grisly scene: police cars everywhere, his cousin arrested for murder and Donald’s wife brutally slain. Believing — unlike the police...
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В 1970 году престижный американский журнал «Спорт в иллюстрациях» вдруг ни с того ни с сего попросил меня написать для них короткий...
Конезаводчик Дэниел Рок по просьбе графа Октобера расследует странные случаи на скачках. Некоторым лошадям явно дают допинг, который,...
If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol; and that’s PROOF... That’s the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the seventeenth century when...
Gene Hawkins, investigator (of a special sort) by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved. Therefore when he himself became a witness to an “accident” his curiosity flared up bright, and he insisted...
Дик Фрэнсис (р. 1920) — известный английский писатель, мастер приключенческого жанра. Бывший профессиональный жокей-чемпион начал свою...
Выясняя обстоятельства загадочного самоубийства своего приятеля, жокей Роберт Финн сталкивается с весьма странной полосой роковых...
As a child Edward Lincoln had had the run of a racing stable, and as a young man he had earned his living riding horses in films. So when a sick friend asked him to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he knew more or...
Young investment banker Tim Ekaterin suddenly finds himself involved in the cutthroat world of thoroughbred racing — and discovers his unexceptional world of business blown to smithereens. When the multimillion-dollar loan he arranges to finance...
The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at speeds far above those of tennis halls served by champions. Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist working routinely before cameras, chiefly...