A high-class, transcontinental horse-racing junket should be an idyllic getaway for the super-rich.

But one passenger on this train is a sociopath, a genius at blackmail and criminal corruption--and he plans to take everyone for everything they've got.

Injured steeplechase jockey Derek Franklin must recover $1.5 million worth ofmissing diamonds and find out who wanted his brother dead--or else his careerwon't be the only thing in danger of being cut short.

Sid Halley, former jockey-turned-detective, returns. Death at the races is not uncommon, but three in one day--including a winning horse and champion jockey--are more than enough to raise Halleys suspicions. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.

A smash hit novel now in trade?from ?a rare and magical talent? who never writes the same story twice.?(San Diego Union-Tribune)
In Decider, inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feud?and the target of a ruthless killer?

A smash hit novel now in trade?from ?a rare and magical talent? who never writes the same story twice.?(San Diego Union-Tribune)
When Thomas Lyon decides to make a movie based on an unsolved crime that shocked the horseracing world in Wild Horses, he discovers that someone will do anything?including commit murder?to make sure this story isn't told?

Best-selling authors Dick Francis and John Welcome bring us a richly entertaining collection of classic horse racing stories by authors past and present. Here are selections from Damon Runyon, whose "Pick the Winner" introduces us to the unforgettable, ironically named Hot Horse Herbie and "his everloving fiancee, Miss Cutie Singleton"; Molly Keane, with a brilliant evocation of racing among the Anglo-Irish gentry in the story "Pullinstown"; Banjo Patterson, the Australian Bush Balladeer, whose "The Oracle" presents a classic specimen of the species found at the tracks the world over, the...

Inside, you'll find a stableful of thrills and a few surprises from such famous authors as Arthur Conan Doyle and J.P. Marquand, Beryl Markham and John Galsworthy, Sherwood Anderson and Edgar Wallace. Brimming with color, excitement and atmosphere, here are compelling tales of dreams and treachery, horses and horseplay, Holmes and Watson, love and death, and a full complement of riders, rogues, and the fascinating royalty of the turf.

Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival.

Man vermenge eine Flssigkeit mit Schiepulver und znde sie an - wenn das Gemisch mit ruhiger blauer Flamme brennt, beweist dies, da die Flssigkeit mindestens 50% Alkohol enthlt. Dem Weinhndler Tony Beach gengt ein simpler Zungentest, um festzustellen, da in den Flaschen mit dem teuren Bordeaux und dem noblen Scotch gepanschte Brhe schwimmt. Doch seine Entdeckung erweist sich als ziemlich explosiv...

Blutsbande knnen sich manchmal als Fesseln erweisen. Dennoch springt der erfolgreiche Hindernisreiter Kit Fielding seiner Zwillingsschwester bei, als deren Mann von der Regenbogenpresse bedrngt wird.