James Tyrone was the troubleshooting racing correspondent of the Sunday Blaze, a newspaper dedicated to exposing scandals in the noisiest and most profitable way.

Ty was accustomed to...

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...

It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is just what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when...

Tim Ekaterin's bank is about to invest in a œ5million stallion called Sandcastle. But racing is riddled with all kinds of Tim Ekaterin’s merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure...

No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards’ Enquiry. Kelly Hughes’ career looks doomed. He knows he’s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous....

Here is Dick Francis’ acclaimed volume of short stories, with settings ranging from the National Hunt Festival at Cheltenham, where a middle–aged owner falls hopelessly in love with her...

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...

On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites. Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a bookmaker - taking over the family business from his grandfather - so...

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...

Perry Stuart is a TV meteorologist who routinely works before the cameras. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart’s profound weather knowledge and...

A former champion jockey, Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well – but in his day, jockeys didn’t usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is...

At nearly eighteen, easy–going Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeplechases as an amateur jockey. His father, George, driven towards a life of public service and...

Sid Halley, champion jockey, had to give up racing when his hand was smashed. But his next job brings him a bullet—right in the middle of his chest. As he would soon discover, life as a private...

As an amateur jockey, Roland Britten was lucky: as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate-list of several fraudsters, but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped. Not from a...

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...