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FROM: "B. Gigot" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/18/05, 6:05 PM

I am looking for books for an adult customer of mine who loves horses.
She has found Sue Henry's dog series to be delightful. She loves the Lillian
Jackson Braun, cat books, but, now has requested similar books (mysteries)
with horses. I'm drawing a blank.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Barb Husch

FROM: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/18/05, 8:14 PM

Dick Francis is the blue ribbon writer of horse mysteries. Most recent
titles include 10 LB. Penalty, Field of Thirteen, Second Wind, Shattered,
The Sport of Queens but there are probably at least a dozen more. He
stopped writing a year or so ago when his wife, who did his research, passed
away.

Stacy Alesi
Library Name *Censored*
Boca Raton, Florida

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com
Giving away forty new books this month!

FROM: "B. Gigot" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/18/05, 10:37 PM

thanks Stacy, I'll recommend Dick Francis to my horse lover !

>From: "Bookbitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: horse mysteries
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:11:58 -0500
>
>Dick Francis is the blue ribbon writer of horse mysteries. Most recent
>titles include 10 LB. Penalty, Field of Thirteen, Second Wind, Shattered,
>The Sport of Queens but there are probably at least a dozen more. He
>stopped writing a year or so ago when his wife, who did his research,
>passed
>away.
>
>Stacy Alesi
>Library Name *Censored*
>Boca Raton, Florida
>
>I am the BookBitch
>www.bookbitch.com
>Giving away forty new books this month!
>
>
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/19/05, 12:13 AM

Even though this is a YA, the patron might enjoy this:

Shadow Horse by Alison Hart.
A foster kid comes to love the horse she's nurturing, but an intriguing
mystery threatens them both.

Another:

Bluegrass by Borden Deal has a mystery at its center, and also a bit of a
romance.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Gelissen, Mary-Lou" <[removed]@city.windsor.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/19/05, 8:20 AM

Dick Francis has a whole series of books out, based in the horse racing
world. Laos Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven is a good book though there is no
real suspense or mystery, just a good analysis of the life of a race horse.

Mary-Lou Gelissen
Teen Services Librarian
Windsor Public Library

-----Original Message-----
From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of B. Gigot
Sent: February 18, 2005 7:02 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject:

I am looking for books for an adult customer of mine who loves horses.
She has found Sue Henry's dog series to be delightful. She loves the Lillian
Jackson Braun, cat books, but, now has requested similar books (mysteries)
with horses. I'm drawing a blank.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Barb Husch

FROM: Susan Smith <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us>
REC'D: 2/19/05, 10:12 AM

Haven't read these authors, but found them on Amazon--

Cali Canberra

Laura Crum

Jody Jaffe

Carolyn Banks

Susan Smith
Reference Librarian
Northeast Branch Library
Arlington Public Library System
1905 Brown Blvd
Arlington, TX 76006
(817) 277-5573

[removed]@pub-lib.ci.arlington.tx.us

FROM: "Lesley K" <[removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us>
REC'D: 2/19/05, 10:52 AM

Mary Monica Pulver, better known for her historical mysteries under the
name Margaret Frazer, wrote a short mystery series feature the police
detective Peter Brichter and his wife Kori, who breeds and shows
thoroughbreds. Good source of horsey stuff.

At 12:02 AM 2/19/05 +0000, you wrote:
>I am looking for books for an adult customer of mine who loves horses.
>She has found Sue Henry's dog series to be delightful. She loves the Lillian
>Jackson Braun, cat books, but, now has requested similar books (mysteries)
>with horses. I'm drawing a blank.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
>

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Lesley Knieriem [removed]@rpl.lib.ar.us
Reader's Advisory Librarian 479 - 621 - 1152
Rogers Public Library Rogers, AR 72758
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Nunc adeamus bibliothecam, non illam quidem multis
instructam libris, sed exquisitis. -- Erasmus
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FROM: "Jill Marks" <[removed]@brantford.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/19/05, 11:09 AM

While Rita Mae Brown's "Mrs. Murphy" mysteries have a cat and a corgi as
the main protagonists, the novels are set in the heart of the Southern
United States' horse country and the horses do become involved in
helping solve some of the cases (although generally, Mrs. Murphy the
feline sleuth, is fairly contemptuous of the horses' intellect).

Brown has written other mysteries where horses figure prominently:
"Outfoxed", "Hotspur" and "Fullcry"(these books feature fox hunting so
they may not be acceptable to some patrons.)

Other horse mysteries are "At Risk" by Kit Ehrman (I think there are
others in this series) and the Gail McCarthy (an equine vet) books by
Laura Crum.

Jill Marks
Manager, Popular and Branch Services
Brantford Public Library
(519)756-2220
Ext. 324
[removed]@brantford.library.on.ca

FROM: "Clark, Rebecca" <[removed]@aurora.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/19/05, 11:21 AM

More horse mysteries besides Dick Francis:

Tami Hoag--Dark Horse (Florida horse show scene)
Jody Jaffe--Natalie Gold series (3 books), hunter/jumper
Carolyn Banks--dressage
Rita Mae Brown--fox hunting mysteries, Full Cry, Hotspur, Riding Shotgun

Also try Horse Stories at Ponydom.com, a book website put together by
horse-lovers from the Chronicle of the Horse magazine's Bulletin Boards.
Organized by topic.
http://www.ponydom.com/books/index.html

Rebecca Clark
Aurora Public Library
233 S. Constitution Dr.
Aurora, IL 60506
[removed]@aurora.lib.il.us

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/20/05, 1:00 AM

I think we might want to include Anne McCaffrey's THE RING OF FEAR, which is
set against the upper New York state horsey set, and has mystery elements.

Caution: some of the intense sexual aspects (euphemism) might prove
objectionable to some.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Elizabeth Watson" <[removed]@sympatico.ca>
REC'D: 2/20/05, 11:36 AM

These are all racing-connected, and a list done several years ago so authors
may have later titles out.

HORSES

Daniel, Mark

Unbridled Ticknor & Fields, 1990 steeplechase
The Devil to Pay
The Bold Thing Little, Brown, 1990
Pity the Sinner
Sleek Bodies Signet, 1995
A Killing Joke Michael Joseph

Dobyns, Stephen

Saratoga Haunting Viking, 1993
Saratoga Backtalk 1994
Saratoga Fleshpot 1995

Francome, John

Eavesdropper
Riding High
Declared Dead Headline, 1988 hc first 4 written
Blood Stock Headline, 1989 w/ James MacGregor
Stone Cold Headline, 1990
Stud Poker Headline, 1991
Rough Ride
Outsider Headline, 1993
Break Neck Headline, 1994
False Start Headline/General, 1996

Murray, William

The Hardknocker's Luck
When the Fat Man Sings Bantam, 1987
The King of the Nightcap 1989
The Getaway Blues Bantam, 1990
I'm Getting Killed Right Here Doubleday, 1991
We're Off to See the Killer 1993
Pitman, Richard Warned Off
Hunted Coronet Books, 1994 w/ Joe McNally
Running Scared Coronet, 1994 "
Blood Ties Musson, 1996
Sherburne, James

Shoemaker, Bill

Stalking Horse 1994 Fawcett Columbine
Fire Horse 1995
Dark Horse 1996
Beth Watson
Windsor, Ontario

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/21/05, 1:07 PM

At 10:49 AM 2/19/2005, you wrote:
>Mary Monica Pulver, better known for her historical mysteries under the
>name Margaret Frazer, wrote a short mystery series feature the police
>detective Peter Brichter and his wife Kori, who breeds and shows
>thoroughbreds. Good source of horsey stuff.

Minor corrections: she was half of "Margaret Frazer" for the first five or
six mysteries,
then dropped out; later ones have been by (what I found to be) the less
interesting half,
and I've stopped reading them.

Pulver is now doing wooldcrafts-oriented mysteries as Monica Quill; I've not
tried these yet so don't know if any horses show up in them.

And my memory says that only two of the Brichter series are heavily horsey: THE
UNFORGIVING MINUTES and SHOW STOPPER, especially the latter. (My favorite
of that
series remains the first, MURDER AT THE WAR, where a real murder interrupts a
Society for Creative Anachronism event. No horses to speak of, though.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/22/05, 9:34 AM

Laura Crum's series beginning with "Cutter." OP and tough to find--most
seem never to have been paperbacked--but they should be ILL'able.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/22/05, 10:15 AM

Bill Shoemaker (known, when he was a jockey, as Willie, and therefore
familiar with his subject) is a sort of American Francis, writing racing
mysteries.

FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/22/05, 11:05 AM

This is a bibliography of equine mysteries I prepared in 1998:

Adamson, Lydia. Dr. Nightingale Goes the Distance: a Deirdre Quinn
Nightingale Mystery.
Allen, Garrison. Stable Cat.
Banks, Carolyn. Death by Dressage; Groomed for Death; Murder
Well-Bred.
Bardin, John F. The Deadly Percheron.
Borthwick, J.S. The Bridled Groom.
Breen, Jon L. Hot Air; Listen for the Click; Loose Lips; Triple Crown;
Vicar's Roses.
Burns, Rex. Ground Money: a Gabe Wager Mystery.
Chisholm, P.F. A Famine of Horses.
Crum, Laura. Cutter; Hoofprints.
Daniels, Mark. The Devil to Pay; Pity the Sinner; Sleek Bodies;
nbridled.
Dobyns, Stephen. Saratoga Bestiary; Saratoga Headhunter;
Saratoga Longshot.
Engleman, Paul. Who Shot Longshot Sam?
Francis, Dick. Banker; Bolt; Bonecrack; Break-in; Come to Grief;
Comeback; The Danger; Decider; Driving Force; The Edge; Enquiry; Flying
Fish; Forfeit; For Kicks; High Stakes; Hot Money; In the Frame;
Knockdown; Longshot; Nerve; Odds Against; Proof; Rat Race; Reflex; Risk;
Slayride; Smokesreen; Straight; To the Hilt; Trial Run; Twice
Shy; Whip Hand; Wild Horses.
Francome, John. Break Neck; Outsider; Rough Ride; Stone Cold; Stud
Poker (with James McGregor); Blood Stock; Declared Dead; Eavesdropper;
Riding High.
Gill, Bartholomew. McGarr at the Dublin Horse Show.
Haining, Peter. Murder at the Races.
Hemlin, Tim. If Wishes Were Horses.
Hewitt, Pat. Dead Horses: a Mystery.
Jaffee, Jody. Horse of a Different Killer; Chestnut Mare, Beware; In
Colt Blood.
McCaffrey, Anne. The Lady; Ring of Fear.
Morgan, Kate. A Slay at the Races.
Parmett, Doris. Risk.
Pulver, Mary Monica. Show Stopper.
Reid, Jamie. Easy Money; Emperors of the Turf; Home on the Range; A
License to Print Money.
Robards, Karen. Hunter's Moon.
Roberts, Lillian M. Riding for a Fall.
Sherburne, James Death's Gray Angel: a Paddy Moretti Mystery;
Death's Pale Horse: a novel of Murder in Saratoga in the 1880s.
Shoemaker, Bill. Death Horse; Fire Horse; Stalking Horse.
Stout, Rex. And Be a Villain.
Upfield, Arthur. The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery.

HTH,

Marsha Valance
Management Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233-1436
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 2/22/2005 10:09:36 AM >>>
Bill Shoemaker (known, when he was a jockey, as Willie, and therefore
familiar with his subject) is a sort of American Francis, writing
racing
mysteries.

FROM: Leslie DeLooze <[removed]@nioga.org>
REC'D: 2/25/05, 10:09 AM

If no one has mentioned her, I would suggest Rita Mae Brown (Mrs. Murphy
series) for horse mysteries. These are set in Virginia hunt country,
and although the other animal characters are more evident (dog and
cats), the horses are there, too.
Leslie DeLooze
Richmond Memorial Library
Batavia, NY

FROM: "Margaret Dunn" <[removed]@caledon.library.on.ca>
REC'D: 2/28/05, 3:46 PM

I don't know now who was doing the list of horse mysteries but I would like
to add Cold Burn by Kit Ehrman to the list . This is part of the Steve Cline
series and is set on a thoroughbred breeding farm in Warrenton Virginia. I
like the characters, enjoyed the horses and could almost smell the hay
amongst other things - oh and did I mention a mystery to boot. A really good
read.

Donna

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 2/28/05, 4:59 PM

Emilie Richards' Fox River is a dramatic novel set in Virginia horse country
(horse therapy) and also has a mystery element.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

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