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Title: Enquiry by Dick Francis ISBN: 0-515-12867-8 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Francis at his best
Comment: "Yesterday I lost my licence."
That's how the book begins ... and indeed Kelly Hughes, a leading jump jockey , has been indefinitely suspended from racing after being found guilty of deliberately losing a race.
He knows that someone has rigged evidence against him, and rather than sit back and wait for the ban to be lifted , he sets out to find his secret enemy.
Hughes isn't a detective, and just as he doesn't really know how to carry out an investigation, the reader can't guess at how the plot will develop. My favourite highlight is when Hughes is driving home after a dance. At first it seems to be just a 'filler' scene, but it turns into something more dramatic - and the writing here is particularly well-crafted.
The two main characters are Hughes himself , a widower, and Roberta, the snooty daughter of his employer. Near the start of the book Roberta asks him:
" "That picture .. that's your wife isn't it?"
I nodded.
"I remember her". She said. "She was always so sweet to me. She seemed to know what I was feeling. I was really awfully sorry when she was killed"
I looked at her in surprise. The people Rosalind had been sweetest to had invariably been unhappy. She had had a knack of sensing it, and giving succour without being asked. "
Unfortunately Roberta has been brought up by her father to regard jockeys as an inferior social class, and it takes a long time for the two of them to kindle any real friendship, let alone romance.
Francis is particularly good in this book with the minor characters - such as the aristocratic Bobbie, who clearly is very fond of Roberta but can't help hinting that Hughes is a better match for her, or Derek the diffident mechanic who kept most of his brains in his fingertips.
The plot doesn't flag, the tale builds to a satisfactory climax and I only wish Hughes had appeared in another of Francis' books.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you love rational heroes...
Comment: The primary reason I continue to seek out and read Dick Francis is that he continually creates heroes that are efficacious and rational. He avoids the common pitfalls of most modern writers, and instead invents characters who pass the ultimate test: "Would I like to meet and know this person?" If you can answer "yes" to that question then there is great potential for enjoyment in the fiction centered around that character. If you answer "no" to that question, why even bother reading further?
Dick Francis' characters almost always recieve an unreserved "YES!" Read "Enquiry," it's not the best from Francis but it's still furlongs beyond the rest.
Rating: 4
Summary: Truth Revealed
Comment: Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield have their licenses suspended by the Oxford stewards for supposedly throwing a race. Hughes believes that they were framed and he sets out to clear their names and get the licenses restored. Who would want to ruin their careers? As the truth is revealed we hear a story of sexual deviation, blackmail, fixed evidence and attempted murder.
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Title: Forfeit by Dick Francis ISBN: 0515124451 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: High Stakes by Dick Francis ISBN: 0449221148 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Risk by Dick Francis ISBN: 044922239X Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Reflex by Dick Francis ISBN: 0515135097 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Smokescreen by Dick Francis ISBN: 0449221113 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 22 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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