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Written by Dick Francis - Audio book performed by Geoffrey Howard - Unabridged Fiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 5.5 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (May 2003)

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"Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Francis captures our attention and holds us spellbound. . . . All the breathless pace we have come to expect of this superb writer." --The New York Times Book Review

Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, has pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to do some investigating-she's afraid someone is tampering with her racehorses. Feeling helpless, Lincoln nevertheless cannot refuse her request.

Once there, Lincoln is overwhelmed by autograph hounds and high suspicions. And when sudden perils cross his path and murder makes a horrific appearance, Lincoln, the actor-turned-investigator, is plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives. He ultimately realizes that the only way to uncover the killer is to give not only the performance of his life, but a performance to save his life.

Dick Francis, a former champion steeplechase jockey who rode for the Queen Mother, is the author of many best-selling mysteries set in the world of horse racing, and is a past recipient of the Mystery Writers of America Award for Best Novel of the Year. He divides his time between England and Florida.