Duncan, Francis
Summary: Mordecai Tremaine and Chief Inspector Jonathan Boyce are never pleased to have a promising game of chess interrupted -- though when murder is the disrupting force, they are persuaded to make an exception. A quick stop at Scotland Yard to collect any detective's most trusted piece of equipment -- the murder bag -- the pair are spirited away to Bridgton. No sooner have they arrived than it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITDuncan, Glen
Summary: Meet Jake. A bit on the elderly side (he turns 201 in March), but otherwise in the pink of health. The nonstop sex and exercise he's still getting probably contribute to that, as does his diet: unusual amounts of flesh and blood (at least some from friends and relatives). Jake, of course, is a werewolf, and with the death of his colleague he has now become the only one of his kind. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUNSepetys, Ruta
Summary: "Madrid, 1957. Under the oppressive dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth. Photography introduces him to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEPDuncan, Dave
Summary: The legendary Maestro Nostradamus may be able to glimpse the ever-changing future, but even he cannot see the danger that is about to envelop him and his daring apprentice Alfeo when Nostradamus is hired to find a foreign spy by Venice's ruling Council of Ten. The only clues they can offer him are the spy's intercepted messages, encoded in a seemingly unbreakable cipher. But Nostradamus soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC DUNDunant, Sarah.
Summary: Renowned for her bright and disciplined way with Renaissance Italy, New York Times best-selling novelist Dunant again visits the Borgias, to whom she recently paid court in Blood and Beauty. As Cesare ruthlessly seeks to unite all of Italy's city-states under Borgia control, Florence counters by sending one Niccolo Machiavelli to Rome as envoy and Lucrezia learns the family business of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Dunant 2017Rivers, Francine
Summary: Strong-willed Marta leaves Switzerland early in the 20th century and settles in California. Though Marta loves her eldest daughter Hildie, they often clash as they attempt to find their places in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: MP3CD FIC RIVFrancis, Dick.
Summary: As bookie Ned Talbot counts his losses after a winning day for gamblers at the Royal Ascot Racecourse, a man comes to him, claiming to be his father. Ned, who's always been told that his parents died when he was a baby, has trouble accepting the man's claims. But when the man is stabbed in the abdomen in the racecourse's parking lot shortly thereafter, Ned rushes to his side. The man's last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby--a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Francis, Felix.
Summary: Former jockey Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn't know about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Francis 2011Francis, Felix.
Summary: In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff Hinkley is approached by a multi-time champion jockey to discuss the delicate matter of losing races on purpose. Little does he know that the call will set off a lethal chain of events, including the apparent suicide of the jockey and an attempt on Hinkley's own life. Never one to leave suspicious events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: A certified public accountant and amateur steeplechase rider gets his chance to ride a famous horse in a top race and jumps into an obstacle-strewn course of trouble and danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: Former jockey Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn't know about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: A smartly-dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body. Doctor Chris Reynolds, a specialist who treated the deceased-and who struggles with mental health issues-is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: Returning to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined the army at seventeen, Captain Tom Forsyth discovers that she is being blackmailed and sets out to discover and defeat this hidden enemy using his finely honed military skills. But can he save his mother's reputation and career as "the first lady of British racing", or will he find himself caught in the cross fire?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: A computer wiz is dead, his body smashed at the bottom of a rocky cliff. The answer might lie in his latest project, a foolproof betting system designed to pick winners. Jocky Club investigator David Cleveland wants to know why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup day that really troubles supersleuth Sid Halley. Halley, a former champion jockey, knows all too well the perils of racing--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest. Yet this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker, who only a few hours earlier won the coveted Triumph Hurdle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Patry
Summary: "A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices, The orphans of Race Point is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and unforgettable love story"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
Summary: After a young man gives up his dream of becoming an amateur jockey to enter the world of politics, he discovers that politics can be more exciting -- and deadly -- than steeplechase racing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix
Summary: Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, has been seconded to the US Federal Anti-Corruption in Sports Agency (FACSA) where he has been asked to find a mole in their organization--an informant who is passing on confidential information to those under suspicion in American racing. At the Kentucky Derby, Jeff joins the FACSA team in a raid on a horse trainer's barn at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrancis, Felix.
Summary: Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned in the first place-the administration of illegal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014