Books by Dick Francis

'Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than an eyebrow.' It's the ... More

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There are two worlds in racing. Winning and losing. Private detective Sid Halley has gone from one to the other - fast. First his career as a jockey ... More

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Sid Halley, champion jockey, had to give up racing when his hand was smashed. But his next job brings him a bullet - right in the middle of his chest ... More

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For a fee, Jonah Dereham agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman. When two thugs claim ownership of the horse, ... More

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Multi-millionaire Malcolm Pembroke's colourful life has included five wives and nine children. When his fifth wife is murdered, he patches up a ... More

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'Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of ... More

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'I wondered if I was dying. I wasn't afraid to die but, such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.' The night before the 2,000 ... More

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"Even Money" is the gripping Dick Francis novel by Dick Francis and Felix Francis. Royal Ascot's first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches ... More

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Movie director Thomas Lyon came to Newmarket to rake the ashes of an old Jockey Club scandal for a new Hollywood film. Too late, he found himself ... More

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"Smokescreen" tells of Edward Lincoln, a famous film action man, who finds himself unexpectantly mixed up in a deadly conspiracy.

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Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. His life calm and ... More

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'This is Francis writing at his very best' Evening Standard Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and ... More

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John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist - preferably without starving to ... More

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When amateur jockey and pilot Lord Henry Grey launches himself into a career in the bloodstock market, he finds more danger and excitement than he'd ... More

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This is the biography of thriller-writer Dick Francis. Francis is known for setting his novels against the background of horseracing. This revised ... More

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Rowena Batts is 11 and she lives with her dad in an orchard. Yet she's no country bumpkin. She's smart and quite good-looking. In her new school she ... More

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Bert Checkov was a Fleet Street racing correspondent with an unnerving talent for tipping non-starters for big races. But the advice he gave James ... More

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Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality. Stratton Park racecourse faces ruin in the ... More

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"Crossfire" is the new thriller from father son team Dick Francis and Felix Francis. Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally ... More

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It is difficult to say where disaster begins, to point towards one particular happening as the first definite step towards distant cataclysm. Looking ... More

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When physics teacher Jonathan Derry is unwittingly given some computer tapes containing a bookie-breaking betting system, his sharp-shooting ... More

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Charles Todd, an artist specialising in horse paintings visits a friend in Australia and becomes entangled in a conspiracy of racing, wine, women and ... More

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At 18, easy-going Benedict Juliard and his father enter into a pact that neither of them will commit any act that could destroy the father's career. ... More

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Steven Scott's nine racehorses are his pride and joy and he insists on having them trained by this great friend, Jody Leeds. Then, gradually, ... More

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The Transcontinental Race Train takes owners and their horses from all over the world across Canada to take part in a series of horse races. Tor ... More

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