Dick Francis: For Kicks, Odds Against, Flying Finish & Bonecrack [U.K. LEATHER BOUND OMNIBUS / 1986]

Dick Francis [ For Kicks / Odds Against / Flying Finish / Bonecrack ]  U.K. LEATHER BOUND OMNIBUS [1986] PEERAGE / HEINEMANN / OCTOPUS  Rare 1986 omnibus featuring four complete novels.  Published jointly in the U.K. by Heinemann, Secker & Warburg and Octopus Books.  Edition features gilt adorned page edges and cover and marbled endpapers. Book is in excellent condition. Light wear to cover / spine and tanning to pages.   Four complete Dick Francis novels in one beautiful volume.  Includes... For Kicks - Daniel Roke, Australian who established a stud farm to raise orphaned siblings, accepts undercover stable lad job from the Earl of October, investigating steeplechase doping in England. At least ten horses win adrenalin-high stimulated, but regular lab tests show nothing. Gorgeous October daughters distract, detract, and fatally endanger. Tension builds into an explosive fight to the death.  Odds Against - Former hotshot jockey Sid Halley landed a position with a detective agency