Dick Francis

With 1.5 million pounds in diamonds gone missing, honesty can be a deadly virtue....

Geoffrey Mason ist erleichtert, als sein Mandant - ein brutaler Schläger - hinter Gitter kommt. Doch Freiheit und Strafe liegen nur einen...

Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey....

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer....

Max Moreton is a rising culinary star and his Newmarket restaurant, The Hay Net, has brought him great acclaim and a widening circle of admirers....

Family ties mean trouble, but when jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens....

Gleich drei Tote sind am Cheltenham Gold Cup Day zu beklagen. Ein Zuschauer, ein Pferd und ein Jockey. Das Publikum ist entsetzt, und Sid Halley hat wieder einen Job...

Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office....

Architect and family man Lee Morris never gave much thought to the shares he inherited of the Stratton Park racecourse, the multi-million dollar property owned by the powerful Stratton family....

A mysterious entity, "Alyosha", is threatening a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games; the candidate may be vulnerable to scandal which could set off diplomatic conflicts....

Amazing what bodily injury could do for a man. A fall from a racehorse had left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career....

Valentine, a blind, confused old man on his deathbed, seeking his peace with God, makes his last confession to a visiting friend, Thomas Lyon, mistaking him for a priest....

Fourteen years later he's free, and very keen not only to get hold of the tapes, but also Jonathan Derry....

When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out....

Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things....

Attorney and rider Geoffrey Mason's two lives collide when a fellow jockey is accused of murdering a colleague with a pitchfork....

Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a Fleet Street colleague died after give him some serious advice, he found himself wading deep into more danger than he expected....

In a world of high stakes and tremendous risks, where villains will stop at nothing to achieve their ends, Dick Francis weaves his compelling narrative with the control of a master craftsman....

A British jockey, riding in Norway, has disappeared, and with him has gone a day's takings from the turnstiles of Oslo racecourse....

Der ehemalige Jockey und erfolgreiche Romanautor Dick Francis erzählt zwei spannende Geschichten aus der Welt des Pferdesports...