Which former jump jockey won the prestigious 'Crime Writer's Association' award the Cartier Diamond Dagger, in 1989?
Dick Francis Barnes. The first of the episodes, "Odds Against", used a Francis title; the others were created for the program. Three TV films of 1989 were adaptations of "Bloodsport", "In the Frame", and "Twice Shy", all starring Ian McShane as protagonist David Cleveland, a character used only once by Francis, in the novel "Slayride". Dick Francis Richard Stanley Francis CBE FRSL (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British crime writer, and former steeplechase jockey, whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and
Andrew Taylor (author) Creasey Memorial Award of the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain. He is the only author to have won the CWA's Historical Dagger three times, with "The Office of the Dead", "The American Boy" and "The Scent of Death". He has also won the Cartier Diamond Dagger, for sustained excellence in crime writing and has been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger, the Theakston's Old Peculiar (twice), and the Edgar award. "Bleeding Heart Square" won Sweden's Martin Beck Award, the Golden Crowbar, in 2009. "The American Boy", a gothic mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe's boyhood years in England, was one