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  • Published: 29 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916691
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

Come To Grief




The Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning mystery novel from Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey turned investigator, is facing his toughest test.

A number of horses have been brutally mutilated, provoking horror all round. Even Sid's friend, broadcaster Ellis Quint, has been moved to make a shocking programme about it.

But when Sid is asked to investigate, the evidence he uncovers points in a startling direction and he finds that his head must overrule his heart.

As friends and associates are angered by his discoveries, so Sid is drawn into a terrible web of conspiracy and intrigue. Escape will require all his legendary wits and cunning . . .

  • Published: 29 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916691
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Dick Francis

Dick Francis has written forty-one novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), his autobiography (The Sport of Queens) and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is justly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world.

He has received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Mystery Writers of America have given him three Edgar Allen Poe awards for the best novel of the year, and in 1996 made him a Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000.

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Praise for Come To Grief

Francis is firmly in the saddle and leaving the opposition standing

Sunday Telegraph

Francis writing at his best

Evening Standard

As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing

Daily Mirror