When globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin returns to his childhood home fo a visit, he is sorry. Waiting for him were long-hidden memories, a string of racehorse deaths and homicide. As Darwin begins to realize that the key to all of it involves his own past, he wishes he'd never come back, because he just might never leave again --- alive.... "One of Francis' most winning novels." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club
Gene Hawkins takes on the job of locating a missing priceless stud. But he gets more action than he bargained for from a group of horse thieves who want to put Hawkins out to pasture--permanently. Reissue.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes--and learns that men who would give drugs to horses are capable of doing much worse to human beings.