Odds against / Dick Francis.
Series: Sid Halley. 1 Publication details: London : Michael Joseph, 2014.Description: 328 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781405916905 (paperback)
- 0718102924
- 071813091X
- 0330105973
- Halley, Sid (Fictitious character)
- Horse racing
- Private investigators
- Private investigators -- England -- Fiction
- Horse racing -- England -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Horse racing -- Corrupt practices -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Racetracks (Horse racing) -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Halley, Sid (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- England
- 823.914 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Crime | FRA | Halley Bk.1 | Available | 061770 |
Total reserves: 0
Originally published: 1965.
Ex-champion steeplechase jockey Sid Haley is now a sleuth. As the story opens he has just been shot in the stomach during the course of his duties as a private investigator, working - or rather, idling - in a firm which keeps him employed, thanks tothe old boy network. Convalescing with indecent and painful haste, Sid finds the pace growing steadily hotter as he investigates the cunningly contrived decline of a racecourse, and comes to close and spine-chilling grips with the crooks responsible.
Adult.