Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 033049242X, Paperback)

Odds Against: Champion jockey Sid Halley had to give up racing when his hand was smashed. But life as a private eye could be even worse. Especially when a ruthless property dealer has plans for Seabury racetrack. Plans that have nothing to do with racing and everything to do with conspiracy and violence Whip Hand: Sid Halley is on the trail of thugs who crush losers. Theres a syndicate of owners with a sideline in violent kidnapping. And Trevor Deansgate, a bookmaker whose hatred of favourites goes one deathly step too far. Halley had better return to winning ways. Because to lose is to dieCome to Grief: Sid has uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend. On the morning set for the opening of the friends trial, at which Sid is due to be called as a witness, other peoples miseries explode and send him spinning into days of hard rational detection and heart-searching torment