FOR KICKS
by Dick Francis
Daniel Roke is the sort of gentleman detective it would be nice to meet again and again and .. He's Australian, whip slim and whip sharp and can fade into a crowd. The backdrop here is the other half of the fascination —the English stables supplying horses for the steeplechase races. Roke works as a stable ""lad"" to find out the brutally ingenious methods by which certain nags are made into winning steeds. A photo finish for suspense and well up to this author's last— Nerve.