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Dick Francis's books always have something to do with horse racing. In this case, that's just part of the plot. Benedict Juliard is 18. He's out ... Banker Young merchant banker Tim Ekaterin appoves a 5 million-pound loan to buy the fabulous racehorse Sandcastle for breeding purposes. The risks are high, ... Blood Sport Gene Hawkins, a British Investigator, was on vacation or he was until his boss asked him to help find Dave Teller's missing Thoroughbred stallion Chry... Bolt The sequel to Break-In features the same hero Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey. Still embroiled in a bitter, long-standing feud, this time a... Bonecrack At 18, Alessandro Rivera decides that the one thing he wants in life is to be champion jockey and ride Archangel in the Derby. Neil Griffon, filling ... Francis booklist Break In Champion steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding helps his twin sister investigate a smear campaign against her race horse trainer husband. He is hampered in... Come To Grief Sid Halley the main character in Odds Against and Whip Hand is back in the third and final installment of Dick Francis' Sid Halley series. About a ye... Comeback British diplomat Peter Darwin returns to his hometown after a long absence to investigate a string of racehorse deaths and a homicide. The key to thes... Dead Cert Jockey Alan York saw his best friend's fatal fall from the horse. He knew it had been no accident and put his own life in danger proving it.... Decider Lee Morris is a 35 yr. old husband, father of six sons and architect whose passion and livelihood is revitalizing what he calls "ruins." His home (a r... Enquiry Jockey Kelly Hughes has his license suspended in a patently rigged Jockey Club enquiry. In his search for the truth, he finds love again in Roberta th... Dick Francis list of books Flying Finish Henry Grey, an English duke, becomes bored with his lifestyle and, much to his parents' disgust, take a job transporting race horses by air in additio... Forfeit At first it looks like reporter Bert Checkov's fall from a seven-story building is an accident. Until horse racing columnist James Tyrone uncovers a b... Hot Money British gold tycoon Malcolm Pembroke is in a whole world of trouble. Not only has his nasty fifth wife just been gruesomely murdered, but he has moved... Odds Against At one time Sid Halley was one of the best steeplechase jockeys in Great Britain. However, a fall from a horse changed his life forever; his left han... Proof At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season everything seemed to be running well to form. Until a runaway horsebox ploughed into ... Reflex Jockey Philip Nore begins to suspect that a track photographer's death wasn't an accident. He becomes the killer's next target as he begins to solve ... Dick Francis novels Risk The first line of Risk is: "Thursday, March 17, I spent the morning in anxiety, the afternoon in ecstasy, and the evening unconscious." Roland Britte... Second Wind British meteorologist Perry Stuart is invited by a colleague to go on a hurricane-hunting flight in the Caribbean. It's a very risky occupation for am... Shattered Gerard Logan is a British glassblower with his own shop and a taste for horse racing. His close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, is killed in a freak ac... Smokescreen Edward Lincoln, an action movie star, has just finished filming his new film Man in a Car on location in Spain. Upon returning he recieves a call fro... Straight Derek Franklin is a steeplechase jockey nearing the end of his career. He broke his left ankle in a fall from a horse during a steeplechase at Chelte... The Danger A serial kidnapper seems to be targetting people connected to racing, including Alessia Cenci, one of the best woman jockeys in the world. Andrew Doug... Dick Francis information The Edge Tor Kelsey, undercover security operative for the British Jockey Club is on the case. Tor poses as waiter on a the Great Transcontinental Mystery Rac... To the Hilt Alexander Kinoch loves his life painting on a remote Scottish mountain. When some thugs roll up and rough him up and Alexander is dragged into a real... Whip Hand Private Investigator Sid Halley is back in the sequel to Odds Against. After losing his bad left hand to the Howard Craye the villain in Odds Against... Wild Horses While directing a horse-racing film, British filmmaker Thomas Lyon stumbles onto a 26-year-old unsolved murder. Despite threats, sabotage, and an assa...
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