A reclusive painter, living in a bothy in Scotland, is beaten by a group of strangers and left for dead shortly after learning of the death of his stepfather. They are seeking something to do with his dead stepfather, but he knows nothing.
A newly reissued edition of this classic novel from the Champion Storyteller
James Tyrone, a racing reporter for a London scandal sheet, knew that fellow writer Bert Chekov was a drunk, but he always thought he was an honest one. But when Bert suddenly died in an "accidental" fall from a window, Tyrone suspected the clues to his death might be found in some suspicious columns he'd written touting can't-lose horses--who mysteriously failed to show up on a race day. In between trips to cover the next big race and secret rendezvous with his sensual new mistress, Tyrone knew he'd prove that Chekov had been murdered. But he didn't know the terrifying risk involved in proving it.
"In this chilling novel of vice and vengeance, a man suspects that his best friend was murdered— and joins a manhunt in which he himself is the quarry." --
The unexpected arrival of a new apprentice jockey at his father's racing stables heralds the beginning of a series of dark happenings for Neil Griffon. First his father suffers a grisly accident, and then Neil is brutally assaulted and abducted. The price for his freedom will mean the betrayal and deception of those who trust Griffon most. But he has no choice: a no-compromise crime czar has made an ultimatum--that his own eighteen-year-old son be hired by Griffon's stables to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby. And the young man must be trained to win. Or else....
First pub 1970. Thriller set in the world of horse racing.
Henry Grey is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's match-making plots and whose greatest joy is to ride as an amateur steeplechase jockey. But on a sudden impulse, he throws in his respectable desk job to join a firm which transports racehorses all over the world.
He didn't really want it, but ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham found himself bidding for a young steeplechaser--with someone else's money.
Gerard Logan finds that when his jockey friend dies following a fall at the Cheltenham races, he is involved in a desperate search for a stolen video tape which embroils him in more life-threatening hazards than does his work as a widely-acclaimed glass-blower.
Former Champion Jockey Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well--but in his day, jockeys didn't usually cross the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. And this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker-- who had won the coveted Triumph Hurdle only a few hours earlier. Just moments before the gruesome discovery, Halley had been called upon by Lord Enstone to make discreet inquiries into why his horses appeared to be on a permanent losing streak. Are races being fixed? Are bookies taking a cut? And if so, are trainers and jockeys playing a danger-, ous game with stakes far higher than they are realistic? Halley's quest for answers draws him even deeper into the dark side of the race game, in a life-or-death power play that will push him to his limits--both on and off the track. In his first new novel for six years, Dick Francis returns to prove once again that he is the Grand Master of thriller writing.
A surefire computerized betting system draws desperate men who will do anything to gain control of it.
Movie director Thomas Lyon came to Newmarket to rake the ashes of an old Jockey Club scandel for a new Hollywood film. Too late, he found himself listening to a balcksmith's dying confession." - Backcover.
British investigator David Cleveland has come to Oslo to investigate a champion jockey's disappearance right before the National, a race he was certain to win. But he's almost drowned in a fjord for his troubles. David knows accident and coincidence couldn't begin to explain this little mishap or the oncoming gruesome string of deaths that David Cleveland would find was meant to include his own....
Een jonge bankier tracht zijn cliënt, een paardenfokker, te helpen wanneer in diens stoeterij twee moorden worden gepleegd.
Het relatief kalme leven van een meteoroloog van de BBC verandert abrupt als hij met een collega per vliegtuigje op orkanenjacht gaat.
Een architect wordt door zijn zes zonen bijgestaan wanneer hij met gevaar voor eigen leven de ondergang van een renbaan probeert te voorkomen.
Een filmacteur onderzoekt in Zuid-Afrika waarom de paarden van zijn tante in races zo slecht lopen. - De eigenaar van een aantal paarden probeert met hulp van zijn vrienden te bewijzen dat zijn ex-trainer hem bedrogen heeft.
De dood van een lifter in een paardentransportwagen heeft vérstrekkende gevolgen.
Bundel met dertien misdaadverhalen die zich afspelen in de wereld van de paardenraces.
In Noorwegen wordt een Engelse jockey vermoord; een industrieel blijkt er iets mee te maken te hebben.
Een jockey komt de eigenares van zijn paarden te hulp als haar echtgenoot onder druk wordt gezet.
