Dead Cert is a classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. 'Admiral met the fence perfectly. He rose to it as if flight were not only for birds. And he fell.' Alan York's friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral's fall. After the race, York visits [...]

This is a classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. When inventor Stephen Scott abruptly fires his winning trainer Jody Leeds, the racing world is shocked and disgusted - though not quite as angry as Leeds, who swears revenge on his former friend. But Steven is convinc[...]

Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew is reluctantly off to pre-Olympic games Moscow, as a favour to royalty. One of the blue bloods is destined to compete in the games and there are concerns - both of safety and of scandal - that only Drew, with his racing connections, can sort out. On arriving - speaking [...]

Bonecrack is a classic novel from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time. At midnight Neil Griffon's home is broken into and he is abducted by masked men. When he wakes up, hours later, Neil discovers that 'unless he cooperates' his kidnappers will destroy his father's racing[...]

Alexander Kinloch found solitude and a steady income painting in a bothy on a remote Scottish mountain. Until the morning the strangers arrived to rough him up, and Alexander was dragged reluctantly back into the real and violent world he thought he had left behind. Millions of pounds are missing fr[...]

The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at devastating speeds. For TV meteorologist Perry Stuart, however, such predictions are generally hypothetical, as he chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain [...]

Ex-Jockey Randall Drew wird in einer delikaten Mission nach Moskau geschickt. Ein mysteriöses Wesen mit Namen "Alyosha" bedroht einen königlichen Kandidaten an den Olympischen Spielen in Moskau. Der Auftrag ist vage, der Gegner unsichtbar, und die Hindernisse sind eigentlich unüberwindlich...[...]

Dzheffri Mejson, advokat i zhokej-ljubitel, okazyvaetsja vtjanut v uzhasnuju istoriju iz-za togo, chto ne sumel opravdat v sude nekoego Dzhuliana Trenta, vyrodka i psikhopata, chja vina ni u kogo vrode by ne vyzyvala somnenij. Odnako prigovor peresmatrivajut, Trenta vypuskajut na svobodu, i eto prev[...]

Globally, there are at least 45 species of game bird that have the word partridge in their name, but in this book G. R. Potts devotes himself to the Grey, Red-legged and Chukar Partridges, with particular emphasis on the Grey Partridge due to its well-known decline in Britain. In this groundbreaking[...]