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His awards include the crime writers associations cartier diamond dagger for his outstanding contribution to the crime genre, and an honorary doctorate of humane let. But when he begins to suspect that a racetrack photographers fatal accident was really murder, he sets out to discover the truth and trap the killer. As in some other recent novels, dick francis here develops the plot around a subject other than horse racing, though there are a few perfunctory nods to it. Knock down is a classic novel from dick francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. Scars of devon lochs grand national never healed for dick francis.
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