title: Death by Dressage
author: Carolyn Banks
description: techniuqe...is as sharp as any killer's knife blade."&lt;br&gt;THE WASHINGTON POST&lt;br&gt;Nobody much cares for Nika Ballinger, but that doesn't mean her violent death shouldn't be looked into. Fellow horsewoman Robin Vaughan doesn't like the way the police investigation is going. In the perfect world of competitive dressage, Nika rode like a piece of luggage. So who arranged to have a horse kick her death? As Robin mounts her own search for the killer, she rummages through Nika's untidy past--and finds a bizarre double life that someone might kill to keep secret.
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  CARRIE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](part0000.xhtml#tp)
  
  
  [Dedication](part0003.xhtml#ded)
  
  
  [Part One: Blood Sport](part0005.xhtml#p01)
  
  
  [News item from the Westover. . .](part0006.xhtml#aid-5N3C1)
  
  
  [Part Two: Prom Night](part0007.xhtml#p02)
  
  
  [She put the dress on for the first. . .](part0008.xhtml#aid-7K4G1)
  
  
  [Part Three: Wreckage](part0009.xhtml#p03)
  
  
  [Westover Mercy Hospital/Report of Decease](part0010.xhtml#aid-9H5K2)
  
  
  [From the national AP ticker . . .](part0010.xhtml#c03.1)
  
  
    
  
  
  [By Stephen King](part0011.xhtml#adc)
  
  
  [Copyright](part0013.xhtml#cop)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _This is for Tabby, who got me into it_ --
  
  
    
  
  
  _and then bailed me out of it._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  PART ONE
  
  
  BLOOD SPORT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  News item from the Westover (Me.) weekly _Enterprise,_ August 19, 1966:
  
  
  RAIN OF STONES REPORTED
  
  
  It was reliably reported by several persons that a rain of stones fell from a
  clear blue sky on Carlin Street in the town