Dick Francis

Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby...

To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer....

Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey....

A British jockey, riding in Norway, has disappeared, and with him has gone a day's takings from the turnstiles of Oslo racecourse....

Family ties mean trouble, but when jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens....

Someone is killing the de Brescou racehorses with a “bolt” gun, shooting them silently, leaving no clues. Before the noble family, which includes his fiancée, is torn apart, jockey Kit Fielding must find the assassin.

Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office....

Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a Fleet Street colleague died after giving him some serious advice, he found himself wading deep into more danger than he expected....

Fast-paced radio dramatisations of six of Dick Francis's classic racing thrillers, plus bonus documentary....

When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client....

John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist, preferably without starving to death....

When English agent Gene Hawkins told his boss he'd forego his vacation to search for millionaire...

Alexander's peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him....

Gene Hawkins, investigator by trade, was expert at arranging events so that they appeared accidental to all involved....

A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic....

Amazing what bodily injury could do for a man. A fall from a racehorse had left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career....

Perry Stuart is a TV meteorologist who routinely works before the cameras....

It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles Sid Halley....

At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season, everything seemed to be running well to form. Then a runaway horsebox ploughed into the marquee....

It’s the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins....