Comeback

The protagonist in the thirtieth novel by Dick Francis is a British diplomat named Peter Darwin. He has some downtime between assignments and, through a combination of bizarre circumstances, he finds himself back in his childhood hometown of Gloucestershire. There he befriends a veterinary surgeon n......more

It's been quite a while since I've read a Dick Francis book, and this one seemed a bit more complicated than most of his mysteries. So it was not the quick mindless read I had planned on but required my attention. Peter Darwin is a foreign diplomat between assignments who comes to the aid of a coupl......more

Peter Darwin no relation to Charles Darwin is a diplomat who ends up investigating the deaths of several horses during operations. Ken is a veterinarian surgeon who Peter befriends when he escorts his future in laws who he saved from a mugging in Florida. Ken cannot understand why horses he operates......more

What is there to say about Dick Francis? As I think about all of his books (yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I've read them all) I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society - either direc......more

Well constructed, but don't read this if you object to animal abuse, as most of the murder victims are in fact horses, including a mare in foal. When your actual human is murdered, the torture-porn aspect gets a trot around the paddock. Our Hero is a civil servant, another fatherless Francis MC, but......more