Dick Francis
1) Knockdown
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman.
But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse.
Unfortunately that's just...
2) In the Frame
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Charles Todd is an English artist who is well known and respected for his renderings of sleek and athletic horses. What he now faces at his cousin Donald's house is also art—the art of a perfectly brutal murderer. Donald's home has been burglarized and his wife, Regina, is lying on her back dead, her face the color of cream. Donald is shattered, shocked…and a prime suspect. And Todd suddenly finds himself involved in a dangerous man-hunt as he...
3) Risk
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Roland Britten, accountant and amateur jockey, awakens one morning to find he can't move his hands—because he is tied up with netting, held captive where no light penetrates and no amount of yelling will get any attention. But why? He knew that this was the latest in a series of events that had begun when he decided to ride in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, a race second only to the Grand National in the lives of British steeplechase riders. As an amateur...
4) Blood Sport
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English agent Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three weeks of vacation with only his tormented past for company. So when his boss asks him to help millionaire Dave Teller locate a prized missing stallion, he accepts. But he gets more action than he bargained for when he draws the affection of his boss' beautiful teenage daughter, advances from Teller's socialite wife, and the deadly attention of the horse thieves, who would be happy to put Hawkins...
5) Enquiry
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Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield have been barred from racing—a devastating event for them both. The charge at the secret enquiry? Throwing a race for personal profit. It is a vicious frame-up, and worse, they have nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refuses to take the phony verdict lying down—even though his personal enquiry might have him lying down permanently.
6) Smokescreen
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Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays impossibly daring detectives on the big screen. But in reality he is an ordinary man currently stuck in an extraordinary spot. Nerissa, his ailing godmother, had pleaded with him to travel to South Africa to investigate whether someone was tampering with her racehorses. He could not refuse her. Once there, Lincoln is overwhelmed by autograph hounds and high suspicions. And when sudden perils cross...
7) Nerve
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Despair, suicide, and obsessive hatred, mixed well with humor, love, and horses, brew up into the story of a battle between one man's nerve and another man's
cunning. Robert Finn, steeplechase jockey, finds himself the focus of a malicious campaign, which is also afflicting his friends. He sets out to discover its source and remove it.
8) Trial Run
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
The last place veteran horseman Randall Drew wanted to go was Moscow. But when his royal highness the prince asks a favor, one doesn't refuse.
The Royal Family is worried about the prince's brother-in-law, who aims to make the Olympics. Unfortunately, a jealous Russian rider has sworn to kill him if he sets
one hoof in Moscow. So,...
9) Reflex
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Well-plotted and full of atmospheric charm, Reflex demonstrates the fine style that earned Dick Francis the title of Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. This fast-paced story of a jockey's courageous murder investigation exposes the politics and corruption at the heart of the British racing world. Philip Nore has no greater ambition than to successfully complete the last years of his career as a jockey, even if it means bending the rules...
10) Banker
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Internationally popular Dick Francis packs his equestrian mysteries with as much breath-taking suspense and danger as any neck-and-neck thoroughbred race. In this best-seller, he combines the hazard of investing in horses with the calculated risk of high finance to create a plot that twists and turns around every corner. It seems a sure thing when young investment banker Tim Ekaterin underwrites a multi-million-dollar loan for a stud farm. The owner...
11) Odds Against
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It's amazing what bodily injury can do for a man. A fall from a racehorse left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career. It was a bullet wound that helped him find one. Although he'd been with a detective agency since his racing accident, it isn't until some two-bit hoodlum drills a slug into his side that he is sent out on a case of his own. That is where he meets Zanna Martin, a woman who...
12) Flying Finish
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In this riveting tale of murder, smuggling, and mystery, Henry Grey transports thoroughbred racehorses to exotic international destinations. When he intercepts a cryptic message he learns that horses are not the only cargo. In this story, set against the backdrop of 1960s Cold War Europe, Grey must rely on reserves of intelligence and courage he didn't know he had to foil a plot of international intrigue.
13) Dead Cert
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Amateur jockey Alan York wins the steeplechase, but it's a hollow victory. The champion horse and rider in the lead fails to clear a fence, and the professional jockey dies of his injuries. Curious about how this could happen, Alan begins an investigation that points to corruption transcending the racing circuit.
14) For Kicks
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Dick Francis takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing with this story of a reluctant detective and a scandal turned deadly.
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses.
But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes, and learns that men who would give drugs to horses are capable of doing...
15) High Stakes
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Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby-a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own stables. Termination of the troublemaker marks Steven...
16) Whip Hand
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Former prize-winning jockey Sid Halley must face some disturbing skeletons in his past and his most paralyzing fear in this mystery involving foul play at the race track, a professional con artist, and corruption within the security service.
17) Rat Race
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. That is until he's forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes.
Luckily nobody is hurt, but it isn't long before Matt realizes that he's caught up in a rat race among violent criminals,...
18) Forfeit
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Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
When reporter Bert Chekov falls to his death, his colleague James Tyrone is suspicious. Chekov's column had recently recommended some 'can't-lose' horses, who then wound up out of the running on race day.
Tyrone thinks he can prove it was murder, but he may not live to tell the tale. Because as the dead man has already made clear, there's...