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  • Blind Switch

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series Book 1 - Jack Doyle Series
    Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder—of the four-legged kind.... One-time amateur boxer Jack Doyle, an irreverent and rebellious advertising account representative, goes to work one fine Chicago day and finds his desk—and his job—both gone. A two-time loser at the marriage game as well, Doyle, usually ultra-confident, fishes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Riders Down

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series series Jack Doyle Series
    No one really notices that a fix may be in until Matt O'Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellman's question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago's oldest active bookmaker, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellman's late uncle and Kellman—a man not unfamiliar with the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Close Call

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series Book 2 - Jack Doyle Series
    Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track in this new thriller by the author of award-winning Riders Down.With the help of furrier-to-the-mob Moe Kellman, Doyle is hired as publicity director at Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago track owned by heiress Celia McCann ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Significant Seven

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series Book 3 - Jack Doyle Series
    Seven lifelong friends and racing fans from their student days at the University of Wisconsin strike it lucky at Saratoga Race Track when they combine to win a plus million dollar Pick Six. They subsequently use some of those profits to buy race horses, one of which, The Badger Express, turns out to be a sensational runner, stallion, and money maker. Seven years later, the men become targets of a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High Stakes

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series Book 6 - Jack Doyle Series
    "McEvoy deftly manages his busy plot while liberally spicing it with intriguing racing stories."— Publishers WeeklyIrreverent Jack Doyle has worn many hats, one or two blown off by his irrepressible temper. A former boxer, advertising rep, and publicity man, Jack's midlife career has been shaped by the world of thoroughbred horse racing and dark deeds therein. So it's no surprise when two FBI ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Photo Finish

    by John McEvoy ...
    Series Book 4 - Jack Doyle Series
    Irreverent Chicago racetrack publicist Jack Doyle, former advertising man and amateur boxer, accepts a new job as a thoroughbred jockey's agent. His client is a seventeen-year-old riding phenom from Ireland named Mickey Sheehan. Mickey and Jack prove to be an effective team until someone begins secretly doping the horses, affecting race results.In his quest to identify the culprit, Doyle is aided ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seabiscuit Story

    From the Pages of the Nation's Most Prominent Racing Magazine

    Edited by John McEvoy ...
    The Seabiscuit Story consists of actual news reports from the 1930s and 1940s, culled from the historic archives of The Blood-Horse magazine. Using firsthand accounts of Seabiscuit’s life and racing career—including his epic head-to-head victory against Triple Crown winner War Admiral—the book tells the amazing rags-to-riches story of this 1930s horse-racing phenomenon. It makes clear why ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Women in Racing

    In Their Own Words

    Women currently occupy a wide variety of extremely significant roles in Thoroughbred racing. Their presence and influence are apparent in every aspect of the sport, which is remarkable when one recalls that hardly more than a generation ago racing was still—as it had been for centuries—almost completely dominated by men. Where did these women come from? What prompted them to penetrate this male ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Great Horse Racing Mysteries

    True Tales from the Track

    Great Horse Racing Mysteries digs beneath the surface of some of the sport's most intriguing cases, including the death by poisoning of the great Australian champion Phar Lap; the shooting of William Woodward by his wife Ann, owners of the great horse Nashua; the disqualification of 1960 Derby winner Dancer's Image (was he drugged?); the theft and disappearance in 1983 of Shergar, Europe's best ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice

    The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills necessary to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability. Building on the success of the previous edition this handbook has been extensively revised. Throughout, the text, references, and website addresses and have been updated to reflect ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Riders Down

    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    No one really notices that a certain horse race might have been fixed until Matt O’Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellman’s question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago’s oldest active bookie, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellman’s late uncle, and Kellman, a man ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    Great Horse Racing Mysteries

    True Tales from the Track

    by John McEvoy ...
    Narrated by John Guccion ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    Great Horse Racing Mysteries digs beneath the surface of some of the sport's most intriguing cases, including the death by poisoning of the great Australian champion Phar Lap; the shooting of William Woodward by his wife Ann, owners of the great horse Nashua; the disqualification of 1960 Derby winner Dancer's Image (was he drugged?); the theft and disappearance in 1983 of Shergar, Europe's best ... Read more

    $19.99 USD