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An unexpected score

On my way through Anchorage enroute to Girdwood, I stopped at Title Wave, Alaska's biggest used bookstore, because how could I not (perennial check for Biggles books came up blank as usual), and picked up a few cheap books for reading material on the trip, including an old Dick Francis hardcover with a ratty dust jacket.

It wasn't until I'd read half the book and was taking off the dust jacket so the book would fit in my purse that I noticed there was something written on the flyleaf. I figured it was the usual "To Jimmy for Christmas, Aunt Maude" or whatever, until I read it and realized ...

blank first page of a book on which "Hi David! Dick Francis" is handwritten

... it's signed by the author! How cool is that?

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... it's signed by the author! How cool is that?

Extremely!

(I don't recognize that one by title at all: which is it?)

I hadn't heard of it at all! I don't know if "the one with the horse faith healer" sounds familiar, but that's probably the most distinctive thing in the plot. The book covers four years in the life of a London investment banker, who eventually becomes tangled up with a guy who faith-heals horses. (I'm about 2 years into the plot and have some distinct suspicions about where things are going, but it's interestingly twisty.)

I don't know if "the one with the horse faith healer" sounds familiar, but that's probably the most distinctive thing in the plot.

It does not! I'll have to read it, which will almost certainly turn out to be a re-read. My mother owns a copy.