Dead Cert
  • Published: 29 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916646
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99

Dead Cert

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26 Mar 1998
Paperback
29 Jan 2014
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The classic mystery tale from legendary crime writer Dick Francis, in a stunning new paperback package.

'Admiral met the fence perfectly. He rose to it as if flight were not only for birds. And he fell.'

Alan York's friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral's fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached.

The fall was no accident - but murder.

Unable to convince the police of this, York is forced to turn amateur sleuth and is soon on the trail of a ruthless gang of race-fixers.
  • Published: 29 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9781405916646
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $29.99
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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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Even Money
Twice Shy
Flying Finish
Blood Sport
To The Hilt
Driving Force
Whip Hand
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Praise for Dead Cert

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

Daily Mirror

Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end

Sunday Telegraph