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Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British [1] steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England.. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt.
First edition (publ. Michael Joseph) Under Orders is a novel by Dick Francis, published on 7 September 2006.. This is the fourth Francis novel to feature Sid Halley, jockey turned private detective.
Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as "slow horses", a play on the name of the place itself, Slough House, and an expression for people past their prime who are slow in thinking and action.
Sid Halley (John Sidney Halley) is a fictional character in four Dick Francis novels, Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders and two follow-up books by Felix Francis, Refusal and Hands Down.
Law & Order is known for its revolving cast, as most of its original stars had left the show within the first five seasons. [1] The longest serving main cast members of the original series include Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe (1992–2004), S. Epatha Merkerson as Lt. Anita Van Buren (1993–2010) and Sam Waterston as EADA/DA Jack McCoy ...
Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron.Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010. The series follows River Cartwright and his colleagues, a group of humiliated MI5 agents, who have been relegated to paper pushing jobs.
Her publications, both novels and short stories, are then listed by main detective, in order of publication. Some stories or novels authorised by the estate of Agatha Christie, using the characters she created, and written long after Agatha Christie died, are included in the lists.
Trixie Belden is the title character in a series of "detective" mysteries written between 1948 and 1986. The first six books were written by Julie Campbell Tatham , who also wrote the Ginny Gordon series; the stories were then continued by various in-house writers from Western Publishing under the pseudonym Kathryn Kenny.