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Whip Hand (Sid Halley, Bk 2)
Whip Hand - Sid Halley, Bk 2
Author: Dick Francis
Sid Halley had been a champion jockey. But those days were lost in a fall beneath 500 pounds of horse that cost him his left hand and his racing future -- and fractured his marriage in the bargain. — Now medical and engineering science have provided him with a marvelous mechanical substitute for his whip hand. But there are no substitutes in Hall...  more »
ISBN: 126055
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Harper & Row
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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Introduction to Sid Halley. A good mystery with interesting plot twists.
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Sid Halley is one of my favorite characters - he's so down to earth and human. I never want one of Dick Francis' books to end.
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Sid Halley, ex-jockey, now private investigator, is relatively resigned to the fact that he now has an artificial hand. The new electro-plastic mechanism doesn't seem to be slowing him down, either, as he simultaneously takes on cases involving corruption at the highest levels of the Jockey Club, the puzzling performances of a trainer's top horses and a con man's ensnarement of Sid's ex-wife.
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Francis at his very best. A real page-turner.
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"ex-jockey turned private eye"
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Francis' hero in this one, 1st person, as usual, is Sid Halley, former jockey. Former, because of an accident which also cost him his left hand. Sid is now a detective, and this adventure begins when he is approached by the wife of one of the owners he once rode for. She has a problem, and has heard that Sid might be just the man to handle it. Good thriller, as usual.

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