Book description
Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in
Odds Against
and Whip Hand
, is back. In Come to Grief
he faces new dangers, new deeply demanding decisions. Sid has uncovered
an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he - and everyone else -
has held in deep affection. On the morning set for the opening of the
friend's trial, at which sid is due to be called as a witness, other
people's miseries explode and send him spinning into days of hard
rational detection and heart-searching torment. Troubled, courageous and
unwilling to admit defeat, for Sid Halley it is business as usual.
Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt
jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in
1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most
famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement
from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens,
before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of
short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott.
During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them
the prestigious Crime Writers' Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger
for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three 'best-novel'
Edgar Allen Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he
was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. In
1998, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and
was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List of 2000.
Dick Francis died in February, 2010, at the age of 89, but he
remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
