Comeback, Dick Francis
Comeback, Dick Francis
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Comeback

Author: Dick Francis

Narrator: Tony Britton

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/01/2022


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction

Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.

About Dick Francis

Dick Francis is the author of many bestselling mysteries, most recently Shattered. A three-time Edgar Award winner, the Mystery Writers of America named him Grand Master in 1996. He lives in the Caribbean.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on June 10, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Chris on October 15, 2022

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

Goodreads review by John on July 25, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Harry on August 04, 2012

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

Goodreads review by Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all) on August 07, 2020

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