Enquiry [Paperback]

"Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis."

No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards` Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he`s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail...

Hughes` own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens. Only a few powerful - and violent - men know the sordid secret. And they`ll go to extraordinary lengths to keep it that way. Murder is just one option...

`Highly ingenious` Times Literary Supplement

`Another winner` Publishers Weekly

Dick Francis has written thirty-nine novels, a volume of short stories ( Field of 13), his autobiography (The Sport of Queens), and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is rightly acclaimed as one of 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 Allan Poe awards for the best novel of the year, and in 1996 mad him a Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement. He was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. Dick Francis divides his time between England and an island in the Caribbean.

When jockey Kelly Hughes is accused of throwing a race, he becomes the victim of a savage attempt to destroy him and everyone around him, including his horse's owner, Lord Dexter Crandall. Only when Hughes decides to fight back, with the help of Crandall's lovely daughter, Roberta, does the depth of deceit become clear. As usual, Dick Francis is superb in his depiction of the horse-racing world, full of greed and betrayal. Equally superb is the clarity of expression that Geoffrey Howard brings to the novel. Snobbery, sarcasm and arrogance flow effortlessly from his lips as all manner of English and Irish social classes become distinct. The pacing is flawless as Howard's narration takes the reader from the austere room where the enquiry is held to the faster pace of the horse race itself. I.Z. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.