New Releases by Dick Francis

A newly reissued edition of this clasic novel from the Champion Storyteller.

Champion race-jockey Kit Fielding''s patron, Princess Casilia, is in trouble. Her invalid husband is being threatened and all the Princess''s best runners are being destroyed - shot by a bolt. The only person she can turn to is Kit, but he has problems of his own.

"One of the greatest living suspense writers." CBS RADIO 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....

From the New York Times bestselling author of Field of 13, 10 Lb. Penalty, To the Hilt, and so many more...a com-pelling and chilling tale of drugged racehorses, double-dealers, and masterful detection that confirms Dick Francis''s reputation as "mystery''s Gibraltar." (Chicago Sun-Times)

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people''s, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he''s taken a big risk: using £5 million to stud a champion racing stallion. When the resulting foals have birth defects, Tim is worried and decides that there may be something else going on at the stables. His suspicions are confirmed when one of those helping with the horses is murdered. Now it''s not just about money, but about life and death. Determined to get to the bottom of why anyone would do this, Tim puts himself in danger''s path to discover the truth . . . Praise for Dick Francis: ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror ''Dick Francis''s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader''s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end'' Sunday Telegraph ''The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish'' Scotsman ''Francis writing at his best'' Evening Standard ''A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever'' Sunday Express ''A super chiller and killer'' New York Times Book Review

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Physics teacher (and crack shot) Jonathan Derry is given some tapes to look after by a friend. They''re not your usual tapes: they hold a computer programme which functions as a bookie-breaking betting system. When Jonathan''s friend is then killed in a suspicious explosion and two thugs turn up at his house waving guns and demanding the tapes, Jonathan realises that he''s been handed a whole lot more trouble. Jonathan knows he won''t be left alone unless he gives them what they want. However, he decides to play his own game. After all, he''s a crack shot. He can look after himself - can''t he? Praise for Dick Francis: ''As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing'' Daily Mirror ''Dick Francis''s fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader''s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end'' Sunday Telegraph ''The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish'' Scotsman ''Francis writing at his best'' Evening Standard ''A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever'' Sunday Express ''A super chiller and killer'' New York Times Book Review Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers'' Association''s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three ''best novel'' Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime''s achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen''s Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Moscow is the last place horseman Randall Drew wants to go, but when his Royal Highness the Prince asks a favor, it''s not easy to refuse. The Royal Family is worried about the Prince''s brother-in-law, who aims to make the Olympics. Unfortunately, a jealous Russian rider has sworn to kill him if he sets one foot in Moscow. Randall investigates, and finds a terrifying track of sabotage and murder.

Matt Shore is a substitute pilot assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track. They''re nervous, but Matt''s not. That is, until he manages an emergency landing minutes before the plane explodes. Matt doesn''t think anything else can possibly go wrong. Then he finds himself caught up in a rat race of danger that puts him on the wrong side of the odds....

A closed-door enquiry has found a jockey guilty of the lowest possible crime--throwing a race for money. His reputation scarred, he''s begun his own investigation--but asking the wrong questions just might get him killed.