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| Hot Blood (St. Martin's True Crime Library) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ken Englade
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (13 reviews)
Sales Rank: 322514
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Rei Rep
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0312957262
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1
EAN: 9780312957261
ASIN: 0312957262
Publication Date: May 1, 1997
Release Date: November 28, 2006
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Product Description
HELEN BRANCH LEFT BEHIND A HUGE FORTUNE?AND A MYSTERY THAT WOULD HAUNT THE NATION FOR YEARS TO COME.
A coal-miner?s daughter, she was a beautiful hat-check girl who snagged a millionaire . . . only to become an eccentric, pet-loving widow who, one day, disappeared without a trace.
WAS SHE A VICTIM OF ?THE GALLOPING GIGOLO??
Richard Bailey was an admitted swindler who spent years persuading rich women to invest in bum horses?even though he claims not to have harmed Helen Branch. Other suspects included a champion rider and an Olympic hopeful?each with dangerous connections to wealthy horsemen, and both with cold-blooded schemes to achieve their mission.
ONE MAN IS DEAD-SET ON FINDING OUT.
When Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Miller launched an investigation into Helen Branch?s death, he went from the polo grounds of Palm Beach to the lavish horse farms of Connecticut to Kentucky?s thoroughbred stables in search of answers. What he learned would cast a dark shadow on one of America?s favorite pastimes. . . .
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Hot Blood August 25, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A real page turner. Ken Englade did an excellent job organizing and presenting all of the people, facts, and situations involved...not an easy task.
Hot Blood The Millionairess, the Money and the Horse murders September 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent reading and an amazing and startling story of the greed and determination of some of high society within the equestrian industry.
I would recommend this book to anyone involved in the Equestrian industry.
Jack Fort Lauderdale, Florida
 The ATF have created lie after lie to solve the Helen Brach murder ! June 18, 2006
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
The FBI could not solve the Helen Brach murder because I think an FBI agent found the truth and was payed alot of money.
When the FBI screws up or gives up on a case they give it over to possibly the most corrupt organization in the world! (The ATF)
The ATF mainly special agent John Rotunno pays informants to lie for them. Joe Plemmons and Cathy Olsen have lied over and over again then 10 years later totally change their stories to make money and lie for the ATF!
Michael and Donna Hunter have been paid lots of money and let off crimes to say exacltly what the ATF wants to set people up.
Alot of what you read in these Helen Brach murder books are ATF lies to help set people up. Joe Plemmons and Cathy Olsen have just proved that by lieing for the ATF. Joe Plemmons, ATF John Rotunno and Chuck Goudie have just been caught in a big scandel!
Look on the internet and see the truth of the Helen Brach murder investigation. This will go down as one of the biggest blunders by the ATF. Please take note of ATF agent Bob Hauffmans remarks on Jan 10, 2005 on CBS 60 minutes saying that he can substantiate one of the three ATF woman agents saying they have been sexually harrassed by ATF agents. He went on to say that in all of his years as an ATF agent, (all of the criminals he has put away have more HONOR than the TOP OFFICIALS OF THE ATF!) He said I know this is sad commentary but this is my experience working with the ATF!
Terrific Book - A Must Read January 25, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Anyone involved in the showing of hunter/jumper horses on the
A-Circuit should read this book. It is well researched and I could not put it down. Although it came out in 1996..the same thing is going on in 2004.
I show horses & what I have seen during the past few years in the name of "sport" is disgusting. This book accurately portrays the greed, lack of character & criminality of some so-called horse people. It is such a shame for the honest,good horse professionals out there. They usually get drummed out of the A'Circuit if they won't play ball w/ the crooks that have control
In the Virginia, Maryland area, it is business as usual. Drugging horses & ponies, showing lame animals, ruining them & "having to put them down"...because, "oh well, they can't do the job anymore" & collecting insurance to buy another expensive horse & pay more commmissions to the trainers & middlemen.
I've seen a well- known broker/dealer of ponies becoming rich by lying & conning unsuspecting parents who are listening to the "advice" of their trainers...not realizing that they are all tied in on the "con". Kickbacks, pay-offs, drugging,not claiming sales/commissions on tax returns, falsifying the true ages of horses & ponies, as well as, falsifying vet records. You name it, it's happening right now.
AHSA (now called USEF) the governing body of show horses has been completely ineffectual in rectifying this criminal behavior. When trainers are caught using illegal drugs on their ponies & horses, they get a mere slap on the hand. The type of customer that stays w/ them is just as bad...the win at all cost attitude w/ no regard for the harm it does the horse or risk for the rider...many who are children.
I applaud the DA in Illinois who went after these scum (some who are currently still involved in the horse business)
I think a criminal investigation should be opened up on this entire racket. It is a huge fraud.
THis book accurately depicts the horse show world right now.
the frightening part is that it is all true November 6, 2002
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
this expose of the otherwise ignored goings on in the world of Hunters and Jumpers is shocking to those not on the "inside". To others, it is business as usual. Unfortunately. Truly appalling is that these people who KILLED their horses for money are STILL involved in the business. AND there are others who didn't get caught...This book is a MUST READ for anyone involved in the horse world.
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