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Ex-champion jockey turned investigator, Sid Halley, first seen in Odds Against and Whip Hand, uncovers an obnoxious crime committed by a friend.

Ex-jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of horse boxes, and one of the rules for his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker.

Mr Polly is a middle-aged man, tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as a gentleman's out fitter in a small town.

In The War in the Air, the astonishingly prophetic vision of H. G. Wells reveals how one invention can change the world.