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Richard Graham Series: (Adult Fiction)
Mystery/thriller series featuring Richard Graham, an ex-amateur jockey and sometime investigator. Not sure how much horse content each of them contain.
1) HARD TO HANDLE
(FABER 1964)
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition
SUMMARY: Sir William Bellamy's invitation was unexpected and a little mysterious. But Richard Graham was reluctantly facing the fact that his steeplechasing days were over. But when Sir William asks Richard to find a missing newspaper editor, he is led into mystery and danger.
2) WANTED FOR KILLING
(FABER 1965)
American edition published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston in 1965.
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition
SUMMARY: With a cluster of bullet wounds and "No Exit" stamped on his passport as a legacy from his last escapade, Richard Graham is forced to stay in Corsica. There is no quiet holiday to be enjoyed when the visit to his old friends Simon and Sue Herald turns out to be an extremely lively convalescence. First blood is shed in a cabin high in the mountains and comes with the first clue, the word "cumhdach" on the lips of a dying man. And what does it have to do with racing in Ireland, a shady Dublin solicitor, a tough and sexy blonde Contessa, the French Foreign Legion and the Victoria and Albert Museum?
3) HELL IS WHERE YOU FIND IT
(FABER 1968)
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition
4) ON THE STRETCH
(FABER 1969)
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition
SUMMARY: Sam Hanaker, a Yorkshire millionaire, calls to hire Richard Graham to keep an eye on his racing stables in Ireland. He tells Richard that Arthur Ravidge has been getting at one of his horses and he wants Graham there to see no damage can be done. Or is it something much bigger than that...?
5) GO FOR BROKE
(FABER 1972)
American edition published by Walker and Co. in 1972
American paperback edition published by Harper & Row in 1983
EDITIONS PICTURED: 1st edition, unknown (possibly US 1st edition), USA paperback edition
SUMMARY: Eric Vaughan was a rich man, financier, owner of large houses and strings of race horses. He was too big to be bothering himself with Richard Graham. And yet Vaughan was prepared to do almost anything to put Graham out of business. There was the accusation of cheating at cards, there was getting Graham involved with a crowd of stoned socialites, there was the plan to have him framed for a sex crime....was all this effort related to rumours that all was not well with the Vaughan empire? Was Vaughan a desperate man - desperate enough to run Graham half round Europe and desperate enough to kill him to prevent the truth getting out?
Collectors Info:
As far as I know only Wanted For Killing and Go For Broke were published in the USA as well as UK. These two can be found fairly easily in both the USA and Britain. Hard to Handle is the rarest and can be quite expensive. The other two, whilst not common titles, are still reasonably easy to find in the UK, though harder elsewhere.
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