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Dead Cert

Emma — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time

‘A classic. If you like a rattling good yarn, then Dick Francis is your man!’ 5***** Reader Review
‘Brilliant, the pace keeps on racing through the whole book’ 5***** Reader Review
‘Gallops along and keeps you enthralled throughout. Riveting’ 5***** Reader Review
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‘Admiral met the fence perfectly. He rose to it as if flight were not only for birds. And he fell . . .’

Alan York’s friend, jockey Bill Davidson, was killed in Admiral’s fall. After the race, York visits the fence and discovers a coil of wire lying beside the fence post and signs of where the wire had been attached.

The fall was no accident – but murder. Unable to convince the police of this, York is forced to turn amateur sleuth and is soon on the trail of a ruthless gang of race-fixers operating out of Brighton.

Now Alan’s caught in a new race: find the gang’s leaders before the gang catches up with him . . .

Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Dead Cert is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.

Praise for Dick Francis:

‘As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing’ Daily Mirror

‘The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish’ Scotsman

‘Dick Francis’s fiction has a secret ingredient – his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader’s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever’ Sunday Express

‘The master of suspense and intrigue’ Country Life

‘Francis writing at his best’ Evening Standard

‘Still the master’ Racing Post

Dick Francis Giftset

Emma — Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

SHATTERED: When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen video tape...SECOND WIND: Following a terrifying hurricane- chasing ride in an aeroplane in the Caribbean, TV meteorologist Perry Stuart discovers that what he learned in that tiny plane could cost him his life...10lb PENALTY: As Ben Juliard's politician father, George, moves towards prime ministership, Ben finds himself targeted in a vicious attack and is plunged into a frightening morass of lies and treachery...

Twice Shy Audio

Emma — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

A classic mystery from Dick Francis, the champion of English storytellers. Physics teacher (and crack shot) Jonathan Derry is given some tapes to look after by a friend. They’re not your usual tapes: they hold a computer programme which functions as a bookie-breaking betting system. When Jonathan’s friend is then killed in a suspicious explosion and two thugs turn up at his house waving guns and demanding the tapes, Jonathan realises that he’s been handed a whole lot more trouble. Jonathan knows he won’t be left alone unless he gives them what they want. However, he decides to play his own game. After all, he’s a crack shot. He can look after himself – can’t he? Praise for Dick Francis: ‘As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing’ Daily Mirror ‘Dick Francis’s fiction has a secret ingredient – his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader’s attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end’ Sunday Telegraph ‘The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish’ Scotsman ‘Francis writing at his best’ Evening Standard ‘A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever’ Sunday Express ‘A super chiller and killer’ New York Times Book Review Dick Francis was one of the most successful post-war National Hunt jockeys. The winner of over 350 races, he was champion jockey in 1953/1954 and rode for HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, most famously on Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National. On his retirement from the saddle, he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-three bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. During his lifetime Dick Francis received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and three ‘best novel’ Edgar Allan Poe awards from The Mystery Writers of America. In 1996 he was named by them as Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement. In 1998 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List of 2000. Dick Francis died in February 2010, at the age of eighty-nine, but he remains one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.