Dick Francis dogs like me. Horses do not. I dislike any horses, but still I've always enjoyed reading Dick Francis. To whom I would like to recall his first death but once. Dick Francis has been jockey, he has the horses ridden by Queen Mum. He once had nearly the
Grand National at Aintree race won when his horse Devon Loch would not have put fifty yards from the finish on the floor. Splash! To do a Devon Loch
has now wandered into the language of sports commentators. I have the misfortune of that time in the Newsreel seen, it looked very funny. One can today still see ☞
You Tube (in the short or long version). Man shot and killed the horse but not the same, and the Queen Mum has calmly said of her horse
Oh, that's racing . And probably one of their famous sipped pink gin. If you take things so, you are over a hundred years old.
quite that old, the jockey did not become of the Queen Mother, he has just missed the ninetieth birthday. He has spent the last decades in the Caribbean, accustomed as it is elongated where millionaires in old age, then the baby blue or pink baby clothes and wear gold watches. After a bad fall one year after the Grand National, he had stopped as a jockey and has written his autobiography, The Sport of Queens
. At that time he had won over 350 races and was Champion Jockey 1953-54 have been. In 1957 he was correspondent for the Sunday Express
and stayed for the next 16 years. Although he wrote long ago as other things.
Namely thrillers. If love the English one, then there are thrillers, finally, they invented this literary genre. And then of course they love horses and horse racing. And the Royals. Then, when a jockey starts of Queen Mum, thrillers to write about horse racing, then you can actually anything go wrong. As an author he could be as bad as Jeffrey Archer, the people would buy it. He is not as bad as Jeffrey Archer, he is surprisingly good.
Or his wife Mary. She had even studied. He was with 15 of the school to be jockey. Was twenty in the Royal Air Force and has long annoyed his superiors until they have him admitted to pilot training, he end of the war was Pilot Officer. Normally, that was something for gentlemen with Public School background. But the little Welshman has bitten. That his wife Mary had written his novels, Graham Lord has in his book
Dick Francis: A Racing life claims. The couple has been silent to principal. Graham Lord is the Sunday Express
and incidentally writes biographies. His biography of Joan Collins at Amazon Marketplace available for 1 cent. The Dick Francis and biographical information. This not a sign of great enthusiasm of the readers.
Dick Francis had never really made a secret of the fact that the novels were a community work. He did the research, Mary gave the whole the literary
touch. She wanted her name, but not on the cover have, though her husband had offered her often enough since
Dead Cert appeared 1962nd From then on, the two up to Mary's death (after his son has worked) almost every year, a thriller written. His first novel, Dick Francis has naturally presented Queen Mum, who got up to her death is always a signed copy by the author. I assume that the horse lovers Elizabeth and Philip have read his novels, because with his death, Buckingham Palace announced that the queen also mourn the death of Dick Francis.
for the German market, Daniel Keel had secured the rights from Diogenes Verlag 1990. The first novel was
incorruptible, the others then appeared in rapid succession. 1993, there were only seven titles, and in 1996 it had everything from 1962 to 1996 in the program. This Dick Francis is standing next to Georges Simenon Eric Ambler and laid with his complete works in Diogenes program. The novels of Dick Francis is perhaps not for the pampered intellectuals who prefer Michael Innes and Edmund Crispin, but it is still worth reading it. Even if you do not like horses.
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