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  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916639
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

Tony Beach will do anything for a quiet life. But when a party to celebrate the end of the racing season ends in eight violent deaths, he is drawn reluctantly into the subsequent investigation.
Meanwhile, the police, having evidence of the sale of illicit alcohol at a local club, ask for Tony's help in closing it down. Thanks to his intervention, Tony comes to the attention of the criminal underworld.
And that's when he reluctantly realizes that the deaths and the illicit alcohol are connected.
Tony doesn't want to be a hero. But if the choice is that or dying...

  • Published: 24 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916639
  • 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 Proof

A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever

Sunday Express

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

Daily Mirror