Enquiry

 

A fast paced thriller from Dick Francis "Enquiry" does'nt disappoint.

Its his favorite theme, horse racing and he excels at writing about it. Kelly Hughes is a race jockey and he has just ridden a favorite horse into second in the Miltonfizz Cup. The horse trainer is Dexter Cranfield. 

What follows is straight outside the box. They both are implicated at throwing the race and their licenses cancelled. Cranfield is a sulky kind of a guy and he goes into his shell, depressed. 

But Kelly Hughes is made of sterner stuff, he decides to fight back and find out who among the owners, trainers, stewards, race bookies had them implicated falsely. In the process, he had himself almost killed, wrecked in a car crash, through attempted monoxide poisoning.

Its a murky world out there - in horse racing, with jealousy, ego, blackmail, hatred all aplenty. In the meantime, Kelly gravitates towards the 19 year old Roberta, daughter of Dexter Cranfield. So there you are, plenty of thrills, excitement in this rollicking novel by Dick Francis. Goodreads 5/5