Andrew Douglas, brilliant, insightful, a decent man, and Europe's most successful anti-kidnap operative, must stop Europe's most elusive and cold-blooded kidnapper, known as Giuseppe or Peter.

Smokescreen: introduces movie star Edward Lincoln, who's just finishing up a movie in Spain. When he arrives home, a friend asks him to check on her race horses in South Africa. He lands in intrigue and mystery.Knockdown: an American socialite commissions ex-jockey Jonah Dereham to buy a steeplechaser for a friend of hers. Weird things happen from there on.Slayride: This is set in Norway where an official of the English Jockey Club has been sent...

From the New York Times–bestselling "master of crime fiction and equine thrills," a jockey turned investigator tackles crime in the horse racing world (Newsday). Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. A hard fall took hotshot jockey Sid Halley out of the horse racing game, leaving him with a crippled hand, a broken heart, and the desperate need for a new...

Felix Francis continues his father's "New York Times"- bestselling legacy with another edge-of-your-seat read that's classic Francis. Nicholas "Foxy" Foxton, a former jockey who suffered a career- ending injury, is out for a day at the Grand National races when his friend and coworker Herb Kovak is murdered, execution style, right in front of him-and 60,000 other potential witnesses. Foxton and Kovak were both independent financial advisers at...

Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead. And then a man with an Irish accent contacts Sid, telling him to deliver a whitewashed...

A collection of fourteen classic horse racing stories.

Contributions from Red Smith, Thomas McGuane, Jane Smiley, Dick Francis, etc.

When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London...