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FROM: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 4/2/09, 7:13 PM

Hello again colleagues,

Today I received a request for title/author suggestions to match Dick
Francis.
Unfortunately I didn't speak to the requestor directly, and the staff member
who did, forgot to query him on the appeal elements he enjoyed.

I did check the Fiction-L archives as well as NoveList, but the NoveList
read-alikes are somewhat dated and we didn't own those authors.

Suggestions (and points on which you are matching) welcome.

Thanks ~
Lynne Welch
Herrick Memorial Library
Wellington OH USA

FROM: "Erica Turner" <[removed]@att.net>
REC'D: 4/2/09, 8:41 PM

Some possible read-a-likes for Dick Francis:

Len Deighton
Jack Higgins
Richard Marcinko
Matthew Reilly

Erica Turner

Teacher Librarian
Mt. Carmel High School
Ph: 858 4841180 Ext: 3551

And

SLIS student


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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:13 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: read-alikes for Dick Francis?

Hello again colleagues,

Today I received a request for title/author suggestions to match Dick
Francis.
Unfortunately I didn't speak to the requestor directly, and the staff member
who did, forgot to query him on the appeal elements he enjoyed.

I did check the Fiction-L archives as well as NoveList, but the NoveList
read-alikes are somewhat dated and we didn't own those authors.

Suggestions (and points on which you are matching) welcome.

Thanks ~
Lynne Welch
Herrick Memorial Library
Wellington OH USA
.


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FROM: Todd Mason <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/2/09, 11:08 PM

---- Original Message ----From: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.org>Today I received a request for title/author suggestions to match Dick Francis.Unfortunately I didn't speak to the requestor directly, and the staff memberwho did, forgot to query him on the appeal elements he enjoyed.I did check the Fiction-L archives as well as NoveList, but the NoveListread-alikes are somewhat dated and we didn't own those authors.--Well, Dick Francis wrote fairly realistic and rather "cozy" crime fiction with horse-racing elements...meaning that, say, Barry Malzberg's brilliant criminous racetrack novel UNDERLAY might be a bit too surreal.  Dan Jenkins's bestslling sports novels might be a bit too rough-hewn, and Damon Runyon's classic stories might be seen as too cute or at least too stylized.I believe this link has appeared on this list before: http://sports.omnimystery.com/Outside the realm of sports-mystery fiction per se, William Campbell Gault wrote brilliant sports and mystery fiction, Ring Lardner, Jr. might appeal, and the Usual Suspects of classic detection as Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie  might also...as possibly would such latter-day near-cozy specialists as Hal Glatzer.Todd Mason

FROM: Mary Zadow <[removed]@mpl.on.ca>
REC'D: 4/3/09, 8:54 AM

John Francome is very similar, British racing mysteries

Mary

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