Jonathon Derry, crack shot with a rifle and pretty good in the classroom, was contented in general with his life as a schoolmaster and, but for the frantic action of a distant friend, would never have found himself plunged into a dark world of danger. Read More...

Philip Nore, steeplechase jockey, asked no more from life than horses to ride and time to himself to spend on his other great interest, photography. Like a minefield of dragons' teeth, whole crops of problems suddenly erupted in his path, disturbing and threatening and ultimately dangerous. Read More...

Moira Pembroke, avaricious and calculating, is brutally murdered, her face pushed down into a sack of potting compost. Moira was multi-millionaire Malcolm Pembroke's fifth wife and their marriage estranged Malcolm form his favourite son, Ian. But it is to Ian that Malcolm now turns for help. Read More...

For the first time, Dick Francis has compiled a volume of short stories, the settings ranging form the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham, where a middle-aged owner falls helplessly in love with her jockey, to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, where the demon drink and wilting willpower take their toll. Read More...

At thirty-five, Freddie Croft has retired as a steeplechase jockey and now runs a fleet of motor horseboxes transporting runners form their stables to the races, or brood mares to the stud farms. One of the hard and fast rules for all his drivers is never to pick up a hitchhiker, but of course one day they do, and by the time they reach base the passenger is dead. Read More...

Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns to England from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood. Read More...

Despite knowing precious little about the world of racing, John Kendall agrees to write the biography of Tremayne Vickers, a highly successful National Hunt racecourse trainer. But ignorance proves to be harrowing: Kendall's impulsive decision stretches his survival skills and ingenuity to the limit. Read More...

It was after a very pleasant summer weekend that Richard Chandos and Jonah Mansel resolved to join forces and help an old friend retrieve some priceless family heirlooms from his home in Austria. But when they arrive at the castle where the jewels are hidden, they find that others, with less philanthropic leanings, have already been there. Read More...

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statemenet .. Read More...

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is the first ever fully realised Ghost-Horror-Detective-Whodunit-Time-Travel-Romantic-Musical-Comedy Epic. Dirk Gently himself is a detective - well, a sort of detective. There is a long and honourable tradition of great detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. Read More...