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- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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Straight
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Derek Franklin is an injured jockey. The last fence at Cheltenham has left him on crutches. But his brother’s death means even bigger trouble. He inherits a jewellery business, a mistress – and some very shady business associates. Franklin likes to play things straight. But with £1.5 million in diamonds gone missing, he finds honesty can be a deadly virtue.
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Decider
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Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality. Stratton Park racecourse faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface but half-understanding the deep compulsions that influence his decisions. One road leads to safety, another to death. How do you know which is which?
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one of the best from Dick Francis
- By Jessica Taylor on 2021-06-16
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Odds Against
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- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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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. And now a bullet wound was helping him find one. He'd been with a detective agency since his racing accident, but it wasn't until some two-bit hoodlum drilled a slug into his side that he was sent out on a case of his own. That was where he met Zanna Martin, a woman who just might make life worth living again.
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Still Great Reading!
- By michele on 2023-10-02
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Hot Money
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Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home, but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open. When he find his own life in danger, Pembroke entrusts his safety to his estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise.
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Smokescreen
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- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and unnoticed because he is now a world-class star of action films, in which he always plays the hero. And the apparently easy survey of the string of racehorses blows him through a smokescreen into circumstances, where, to survive, he has to make himself become the man everyone else already thinks he is.
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The Edge
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- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation, and proving to be a slippery character to put behind bars. Baffled, they call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey to keep an unflinching eye on Filmer and his associates. A mission that takes him from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior, on a luxury transcontinental train journey to end them all.
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- By Jon Dickinson on 2020-11-03
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Straight
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Derek Franklin is an injured jockey. The last fence at Cheltenham has left him on crutches. But his brother’s death means even bigger trouble. He inherits a jewellery business, a mistress – and some very shady business associates. Franklin likes to play things straight. But with £1.5 million in diamonds gone missing, he finds honesty can be a deadly virtue.
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Decider
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality. Stratton Park racecourse faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface but half-understanding the deep compulsions that influence his decisions. One road leads to safety, another to death. How do you know which is which?
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one of the best from Dick Francis
- By Jessica Taylor on 2021-06-16
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Odds Against
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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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. And now a bullet wound was helping him find one. He'd been with a detective agency since his racing accident, but it wasn't until some two-bit hoodlum drilled a slug into his side that he was sent out on a case of his own. That was where he met Zanna Martin, a woman who just might make life worth living again.
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Still Great Reading!
- By michele on 2023-10-02
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Hot Money
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home, but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open. When he find his own life in danger, Pembroke entrusts his safety to his estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise.
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Smokescreen
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and unnoticed because he is now a world-class star of action films, in which he always plays the hero. And the apparently easy survey of the string of racehorses blows him through a smokescreen into circumstances, where, to survive, he has to make himself become the man everyone else already thinks he is.
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The Edge
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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To the Jockey Club, the racing world would be a better place without Julius Apollo Filmer. An expert in corruption with a devastating line in witness intimidation, and proving to be a slippery character to put behind bars. Baffled, they call in undercover security agent Tor Kelsey to keep an unflinching eye on Filmer and his associates. A mission that takes him from the finest of English racecourses to the wild Canadian interior, on a luxury transcontinental train journey to end them all.
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- By Jon Dickinson on 2020-11-03
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The Danger
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- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a South Coast beach and the senior steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal - kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey, and the little boy an only son of a racehorse owner.
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Dick Francis at his best
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Reflex
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- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The differnce is, Millace is dead, and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known and abused by a trainer he knows only too well, Nore is no stranger to shabby morals. And when he begins to decipher the dead man's photographs, he uncovers corruption on a scale he had never imagined.
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spell binding
- By JOHN on 2018-07-05
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In the Frame
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- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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The house was stripped bare of all its treasures. Gone was the furniture, the family silver, the paintings and the antique china. And if that was a shock for Charles Todd, painter of horses, how much more harrowing was the trauma for his cousin Donald, whose house it was and whose young wife lay on the sitting room floor, bloody and dead... A coincidental meeting with a middle-aged widow sends Charles off to Australia, on the trail of a gang with a fruitful business in forging works of art.
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Banker
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- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things. Now he's about to involve it in ₤5 million of prime horseflesh, a stallion called Sandcastle. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing. But racing doesn't just attract the money men of the city. It's riddled with all kinds of dubious dealmakers. People who don't think twice about breaking bones. People to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood, Ekaterin's blood.
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incredible
- By Ted on 2021-02-25
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To the Hilt
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Alexander Kinloch, artist, has worked out a good pattern for his life. His home is a small bothy on a remote mountain in Scotland; he paints on commission, from which he derives both pleasure and a decent income; he lives alone and likes it. One day, however, Alexander's peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. Afer a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and the words "Where is it?" ringing in his ears.
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Dead Heat
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Felix Francis, Tony Britton
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner, cooked by Max Moreton. However, Max's food is soon suspected of putting 24 guests in hospital with food poisoning.
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Disappointing
- By Jennifer on 2023-06-04
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Comeback
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood, at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theater was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir. The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn't solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered people and what was at stake. And now he knew enough to get himself killed.
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Proof
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season, everything seemed to be running well to form, including the need for more champagne. Then a runaway horsebox ploughed into the marquee. A witness to the terrible death and destruction, wine merchant Tony Beach knows it is just one of those tragic accidents. But when his expert advice is called into play over sub-standard alcohol in a local night club, connections start to click, and another person dies, horribly.
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Good Story
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Break In
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- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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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. Putting behind him an age old feud, Kit tries to find out who is behind a vicious newspaper campaign which is jeopardising Bobby's career as a racehorse trainer. Combining his investigations with riding winners he makes some startling discoveries.
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Loved the traditional mystery
- By Shepherd on 2023-11-11
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Dick Francis's Gamble
- Written by: Felix Francis
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Felix Francis co-wrote several horse racing mysteries with his late father Dick Francis before the legendary author passed away in 2010. Taking up the reins for his first solo effort, Felix delivers a captivating tale that franchise fans will thoroughly enjoy. Former jockey Nicholas “Foxy” Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn’t know about.
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Driving Force
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
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Shattered
- Written by: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Gerard Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for his work.
Written by: Dick Francis
Publisher's Summary
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. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall impulsively accepts an unlikely job.
He is to research and write a biography of Tremayne Vickers, a famous racehorse trainer. Staying at Vickers' home in rural Berkshire, Kendall soon learns to like his host and friends, learns to ride racehorses, learns about murderers ... and how his own survival tips can become deadly traps.
What the critics say
"An exuberant, irresistible collision between writing and racing ... Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menace." ( The Boston Herald)
"Fast-paced, meticulously plotted ... Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis." ( San Francisco Chronicle)
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- mcgr
- 2020-04-15
Good!
I've listened/read many of Dick Francis' books and Tony Britton is my go-to narrator for any of Dick Francis' books.. It's something I always seem to come back to when wanting a light, quick read. My little guilty pleasure. This is probably one of my favorite of Dick Francis books! A little slow to start, but the characters make things interesting as well as the murder mystery. A slow build up to a satisfying ending!
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- Ant the Limey
- 2005-12-04
slower pace than some of his others
not a good introduction to Dick Francis - slower (initially) than most of his others, even more rooted in the characters than usual. However - if you are already familiar with Dick Francis, then this one will knock your socks off. The protagonist is a writer, so you actually see some of Dick Francis' own feelings leak into the character about the process of writing. The languid pace lulls you into a false rhythm, so it absolutely galvanises you when the going gets wild. The characters are exceptional, and its a true classic murder mystery.
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- Nina
- 2007-03-13
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Even tho all his books have something to do w horse racing, I have never, ever been bored by a Dick Francis book. I wish I could say the same about some of my other favorite mystery authors! Francis always comes thru w a great story and a human one.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2008-01-28
Off to a slow start but a GREAT race nonetheless.
I have listened to most of the Dick Francis books offered by Audible and most if not all are read by Tony Britton. For some reason my download of the book made Tony sound slower or maybe pedantic is the better description. But once the story took off as usual with Dick Francis' books I hated to turn the book off.
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- Bradley
- 2005-12-23
Sounds Horrible
This might be a great book. I don't know. The sound quality is so bad it has distracted me since I started listening. It's too bad because I have liked what I can hear.
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- Mary A.
- 2018-08-06
This has become one of my favorites!
I love this book—Dick Francis gets into the whodunnit territory here when a skeleton is found. I like the main character a lot who is trying to write a sequel to a novel. Previously he had been writing “How to Survive” in various travel destinations. I love the interactions and dynamics going on between the circle of friends. Will the untoward happenings cause irreparable damage to the close knit circle of friends? You’ll need to listen to find out! 😁
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- Leoni Lubbinge
- 2023-09-17
Excellent book
Excellent book, even better than the print edition. The story really comes to life. Wonderful writer and narrator
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- Dana
- 2021-11-02
Novel plus survival guide bonus. One silly error
Dick Francis never fails. His first person character is a young survivalist author with lots of book knowledge and previously unproven skills, very cool and quickly respected or envied by a family he moves in with.
As usual for DF, protagonist is tough and repeatedly tested, clever and careful in whom he confides. The alluring world of horses and rural pre-cellphone England make a great setting.
Dick is also great at solidly demonstrating his protagonists’ knowledge base and skill but here’s an exception. Spoiler Alert: I am dumbfounded that a survivalist needs a compass to figure directions when the sun has set in the west, the moon is rising in the east, traffic noise is north and Polaris is visible. Also that he doesn’t notice someone with a flashlight tramping past over twigs a few feet away at night.
His book contains some good ideas for a survival kit. I personally recommend 2 for-sure pocket items and 2-3 more if fanny pack space permits. This is in case a day-hike goes too long: a disposable poncho and either a collapsible water bottle or several 1 quart high quality ziplock bags for water transport. If there’s more room, add a headlamp or penlight, a torch lighter and a water filter straw. ( there are now compact filters on a straw that allow sipping dirty water but it’s much better if you put dirty water in a bottle so you can squeeze. If possible, have 2 bottles, 1 each for clean and dirty water; or fill ziplock bags.). More room? String, knife and space blanket, fleece hat. Safety pins or coil of bailing wire…
(I wonder if authors tease readers on purpose. Am reminded how Dan Brown’s professor is repeatedly enthralled with simple symbols but uninterested when he notices that Venus has left its orbit. Probably authors get sloppy when the book is almost done)
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-01-06
Love Dick Francis! He is one of my favorites!
I love Dick Francis! His books are very entertaining! Also, Tony Britton is quite fabulous!
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- Tracey
- 2014-04-25
got a longshot
Where does Longshot rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
good it was an interesting story as with most of dick francis books
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
it was well read with several twists
Which character – as performed by Tony Britton – was your favorite?
gareth
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
yes it was but i listened over a couple of days while driving it makes the trip more interresting on nightshift
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- lindalovesbooks
- 2013-10-01
Fabulous, Informative, Wow
If you could sum up Longshot in three words, what would they be?
Exciting, entertaining, intelligent
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Plot is fantastic, it draws you in within the 1st few pages and you begin to really like the main character. then the action starts and it never really lets up.
Would you listen to another book narrated by Tony Britton?
Not a Dick Francis Book. I know Tony Britton is very talented and has a lovely voice but it was wrong for this character. He just sounded too posh and too old. Because I've read this book many times, it was quite offputting. It just somehow seemed wrong.
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