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Dick Francis
Charles Todd, a successful artist who paints horses, arrives at his cousin Donald’s house and stumbles on a grisly scene: police cars everywhere, his cousin arrested for murder and Donald’s…
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Felix Francis
Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs retired private investigator Sid Halley to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard…
Francis Lynde
Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was an American author. Three of his books were adapted to film. He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American…
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Jonah Dereham is a bloodstock agent who buys and sells horses for his clients. As an ex-jockey, it’s the ideal quiet life - until Jonah is attacked by thugs out…
Wine merchant Tony Beach will do anything for a quiet life. But when a party to celebrate the end of the racing season ends in eight violent deaths, he is…
One-handed ex-jockey Sid Halley works as a private detective, using his racing knowledge to solve crimes that baffle the police. In Whip Hand, Sid is asked to investigate possible doping…
Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin is returning to England, back to his childhood home of Gloucestershire. But instead of a pleasant trip down memory lane, Peter finds himself coming to…
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David Cleveland - an investigator for the Jockey Club - is sitting in a dinghy in a pleasant little fjord in Norway. He’s here to help the Norwegians find out…
Felix Francis continues his father’s New York Times -bestselling legacy with another suspenseful read that’s classic Dick Francis. Grand National winner Nick OFoxyO Foxton is about to watch his luck…
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New York Times bestselling author Felix Francis continues his father’s legacy of suspense-driven fiction with Dick Francis’s Damage…
Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to…
A Dick Francis novel from the author of Dick Francis’s GAMBLE and Dick Francis’s BLOODLINE /
When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won…
When a string of kidnappings rocks the horse racing world, Andrew Douglas is brought in to recover the missing–without becoming the next victim. Reissue.
Alan York’s friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral’s fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and…
Rob Finn’s winning streak made him one of the most sought-after steeplechase jockeys. But his subsequent collapse in form surprised no one more than himself. As word spreads that Finn…
Dick Francis (Fiction)
From the Grand Master of crime fiction comes his debut novel, now reissued ina stunning new package.
A classic mystery from one of the world’s most popular authors. In his first case as a detective, former jockey Sid Halley goes up against a field of thoroughbred criminals–and…
From the best writer in the mystery genre (Larry King) comes the story of a jockey who discovers that his losing streak is caused by something sinister. Reissue.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke resisted money to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But when another investigator dies, Roke learns that men who give drugs to horses can do…
A wannabe jockey accepts a job in his father’s campaign for Parliament and soon realizes that politics can be the most perilous horse race of all. Reissue.
Ex-jockey Freddie Croft now runs a fleet of vehicles which transport racehorses across the British Isles and Europe. But when two of his drivers pick up a hitchhiker who ends…
Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey turned investigator, is facing his toughest test. A number of horses have been brutally mutilated, horrifying their owners and the general public. Even Sid’s friend, broadcaster…
Jockey Freddie Croft discovers a high-stakes conspiracy that exposes the seedy underside of horse racing–and faces even deadlier odds of survival than in any steeplechase run.
A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich. However, one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption, who…
Sid Halley, former jockey-turned-detective, returns. Death at the races is not uncommon, but three in one day–including a winning horse and champion jockey–are more than enough to raise Halleys suspicions…
After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape that just might destroy his…
A superbly crafted collection of 13 tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horse racing. Reissue.
An omnibus edition brings together a trio of mysteries featuring ex- jockey Sid Halley and set in the world of horseracing, as he trails the man who shot him during…
From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes the story of a self-imposed outcast who must refresh his detection skills in order to save himself and his family. Reissue.
Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun’s over when a team of hit men crash the party. The event leaves Tony with a…
Writer John Kendall travels to England to interview a racehorse trainer with something to hide–a secret that could threaten Kendall’s life.
Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore the Stratton Park racecourse to itsformer grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of theirown. Reissue.
Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people’s, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he’s taken a…
Just after learning that his stepfather is gravely ill, artist Al Kinloch, returning to his remote home in the Scottish Highlands, is attacked by four men. They ask one question…
Physics teacher (and crack shot) Jonathan Derry is given some tapes to look after by a friend. They’re not your usual tapes: they hold a computer programme which functions as…
When his plane goes down during a hurricane, weatherman Perry Stuart is stranded on a desolate Caribbean island. What he sees there gives him zero chance of survival.
When a film director hears a friend’s deathbed confession about an unsolved crime that rocked the racing world nearly 30 years ago, he is compelled to pick up the thread…
Tim Ekaterin’s merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a u5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it’s the safest…
Jockey and amateur photographer Philip Nore knows all too well how it feels to take a tumble from a horse. He also knows what it’s like to feel the wrath…
Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew is reluctantly off to pre-Olympic games Moscow, as a favour to royalty. One of the blue bloods is destined to compete in the games and there are…
A closed-door enquiry has found a jockey guilty of the lowest possible crime–throwing a race for money. With his reputation scarred, the jockey begins his own investigation. But asking the…
Edward Lincoln has scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases and defeated scores of assassins. As a movie action man he’s even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors…
Matt Shore is a pilot down on his luck. Once he’d flown big jets and dropped supplies in war zones. Now he’s ferrying high-class passengers between English race courses. But…
Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from his horse. In the aftermath, Gerard is left to pick up the pieces -…
When Kelly Hughes rides the favourite into second place, he gets penalized for his trouble. Not only has he lost the race, but also his licence, as the Jockey Club…
Life as a writer is colder, hungrier work than John Kendall had bargained for. Not even the survival guides he’s written can help him. So when notorious racehorse trainer Tremayne…
Jockey Kit Fielding’s patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened by a ruthless business partner who wants to use the firm to manufacture arms. At…
When inventor Stephen Scott abruptly fires his winning trainer Jody Leeds, the racing world is shocked and disgusted - though not quite as angry as Leeds, who swears revenge on…
