Twice Shy
Autor Dick Francis Tony Brittonen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 30 sep 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781572708594
ISBN-10: 157270859X
Pagini: 8
Dimensiuni: 135 x 151 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: AUDIO PARTNERS
ISBN-10: 157270859X
Pagini: 8
Dimensiuni: 135 x 151 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: AUDIO PARTNERS
Descriere
A friend gives Jonathan Derry some musical tapes, but the tapes are really an elaborate computerized betting system that can make their owner a rich man--or a dead one, as Jonathan unfortunately discovers, in this classic mystery by Dick Francis. Unabridged. 8 CDs.
Notă biografică
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 Allan 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 eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
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 Allan 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 eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
Recenzii
A
regular
winner
.
.
.
as
smooth,
swift
and
lean
as
ever
As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing
As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing