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They may not all be "official" eyes, but they certainly end up doing the job, even if the job description doesn't mention it. And, of course, each novel touches somehow on racing and horses.
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To overlook Francis' work, or dismiss it as merely horsey versions of Agatha Christie as many American hard-boiled readers do, is just wrong. Dame Christie would never people her quaint little villages with such an assortment of villainous psychopaths and sociopaths, or put her heroes through such physical and mental torture. People get hurt in these books, and their pain isn't easily walked off.
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The bad guys are nasty, and brutal, and the books are often hardboiled almost to the point of noir. Fans of the P. By far his greatest creation was the vaguely autobiographical Sid Halley , a former star jockey who finds a second career and a second life as a private investigator. Francis learned to ride when he was five, on a donkey of all things. The story goes that his older brother bet him sixpence that little dick couldn't jump a fence while sitting backwards on the donkey. It took a few tries, but eventually did it, collecting the wager and earning, as he put it, his "first riding fee.
Francis became an amateur steeplechase rider when he was 26, and two years later began riding as a professional steeplechase jockey, eventually winning more than races. At 36, he retired as a jockey, and became covered racing for the Sunday Express.
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He published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens , in and, spurred by the success of that book, he tried his hand at a mystery novel, Dead Cert , which saw print in He ended up writing over forty mysteries, averaging one a year, until the death of his beloved wife and partner Mary Margaret Brenchley in In fact, the unauthorised biography, Dick Francis: A Racing Life , had suggested that Francis' books had in fact been written by Mary herself, although Francis never confirmed the rumours.
Amoroso wrote in , "And yet he has a keen sense of the evanescence of literary endeavors. In Australia, he is recognized in restaurants, from his book-jacket picture. He and Mary will see people reading the novels on planes and trains. Francis was elected in a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His first novel, Dead Cert , was adapted as a film under the same title in The first of the episodes, Odds Against , used a Francis title; the others were created for the program.
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London: Joseph. The Times. Retrieved 18 October The Spokesman-Review Spokane Chronicle. Daily Mail. BBC News. Retrieved 14 February The New York Times. The Telegraph. Sports Illustrated Vault. Archived from the original on 14 November Retrieved 12 September The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 February Rees 16 February The Washington Post. The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 28 April The Washington Times.
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Retrieved 29 April The Record. Retrieved 27 April The Independent. Felix Francis, son of thriller writer Dick Francis, pens his first solo effort". The London Gazette Supplement.
Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March My mother always called my father Richard. And to me, my father was Richard and my mother was Mary, and together they were Dick. Was it Mary or was it Dick who did it?
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Well it was neither - they did it together. Everyone knew that - there was no mystery, no hoodwinking. In his biography of Dick Francis, Graham Lord alleges that Dick's wife, Mary, was the main writer of the books, on the grounds that Dick's poor educational background would preclude him from writing so eloquently. Dick and Mary worked as a team: Dick devised the plots and wrote a first draft and Mary then improved the grammar in places. Mary also did a lot of the non-horseracing research for the books: she learned to paint for "In The Frame", she learned to fly and ran an air taxi company for "Flying Finish" and "Rat Race", and she became a proficient photographer for "Reflex".
Dick and Mary had two sons, Merrick and Felix born Merrick owns Lambourn Racehorse Transport Ltd, which transports many of the horses of Lambourn, England; it is the largest horse transport business in Europe as of the late s , and he has trained horses, as well.
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He wrote an autobiography, "The Sport of Queens," with the help of his wife Mary, refusing to employ a ghostwriter; it was published in In , Francis went to work as a racing correspondent for The London Sunday Express, a newspaper where he worked for 16 years. In , at the age of 36, he retired at the top of his profession. Many of his characters are jockeys who are approaching the mids and fearing retirement, or ex-jockeys who remember that fear and wish they could keep racing.
At the peak of his career, Francis rode in as many as races a year. He was ranked among the top jockeys in Great Britain in every one of the 10 years that he rode. In , he married Mary Brenchley, a former publisher's reader; she helped editorially on all his books. In , he made his debut as an amateur jockey and, in , turned professional.