- Fiction, Private investigators, Sid Halley (Fictitious character), Horse racing
Sid Halley, now a private investigator with a bionic hand, finds himself uncovering corruption in the racing world.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Dick Francis
- First published
- 1787
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Berkley, Chivers Audio Books, Canelo
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- German, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780718132347
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First sentence
“I TOOK THE battery out of my arm and fed it into the recharger, and only realized I'd done it when ten seconds later the fingers wouldn't work.”
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