Benedict Juliard is an aspiring jockey who must bypass his dreams of horse racing to help his father, George, in his quest to enter the world of politics. At 18, the reserved Benedict is asked by his father to enter into a pact: Neither of the two will do anything that could somehow hinder or destroy George's blossoming political career. Young Benedict, who has no stronger ambition than to ride steeplechase as an amateur jockey, agrees to the pact,...

Gene Hawkins decides to spend his three weeks vacation from the secret security agency in helping Dave Teller, an old friend of his boss, find the vanished Chrysalis, a stallion Dave and his colleagues had paid over a million dollars for, and the third to disappear in the States.

Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey turned investigator, is facing his toughest test. A number of horses have been brutally mutilated, horrifying their owners and the general public. Even Sid's friend, broadcaster Ellis Quint, has been moved to make a shocking programme about it. But when Sid is asked to look into the case, the evidence he uncovers points in a startling direction and he finds that his head must overrule his heart. As friends and associates...

Thomas Lyon, a film director, hears the dying secret of Valentine Clark, a man who knew everyone in the racing world.

As jockey Alan York looked at the back of Bill Davidson astride the great horse Admiral, one thing was different. Before his rival reached the last hurdle, he was dead. Alan knew racing was dangerous; he also knew Bill's death was no accident. It was the kind of knowledge that could get a man killled....

When Sid Halley is asked to find the reason a horse trainer's most promising horses have been performing so poorly, he ends up in the middle of a much bigger and brutal investigation.

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Brittenaccountant and champion steeplechase jockeyknows hes entered a nightmare of someone elses making. Wracking his brain to figure out whos out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isnt long, though, before hes recaptured. Now, with his life at stake, he must take every risk to...

"'I inherited my brother's life and it nearly killed me.' So says Derek Franklin, an injured steeplechase jockey, who must try to untangle his brother's complex life -- filled with women, precious gems, and horses -- without losing his own."

From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” an aristocratic amateur jockey gets involved in a criminal investigation (Newsday).
 
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
 
The youngest child of rich, neglectful parents, Henry Grey was occasionally accused of...