Books I've Read

A writer (of survival books, mostly) researches a biography of a racehorse trainer.

A steeplechase jockey Rob Finn is accused of losing his nerve. Very good story!

My first Dick Francis book, and it's fabulous! Wine merchant Tony Beach helps find who is selling faked vintage wine.

Pilot Matt Shore would like to know who blew up his air taxi (while ferrying jockeys, trainers and owners, of course).

Jockey/photographer Philip Nore finds some interesting photos in a dead track photographer's junk box, an sees what develops. Very good, tricky photography puzzles.

Accountant and amateur jockey Roland Britten keeps getting kidnapped.

Meteoroligist Perry Stuart visits Florida, flies through a hurricane, crashes in the ocean, crashes again on land, meets a good woman, and helps catch the bad guys selling nuclear gook.

Gerard Logan, glassblower, keeps getting attacked by people looking for a videotape his dead jockey friend sent him, except he doesn't HAVE said videotape. Very good!

Lawyer (and amateur jockey) Geoffrey Mason is threatened by awful thug Julian Trent to throw a case. Written with son Felix Francis, who looks like someone I'd enjoying having a drink with.

David Cleveland, investigator for the English Jockey Club, goes to Norway to look for a missing jockey and some missing money.

Actor Edward Lincoln goes to South Africa to find out why his friend's horses aren't racing well.

Jockey Derek Franklin takes over his brothers gem business when he is killed in an accident. Lots of gadgets!

Safety consultant Andrew Douglas rescues kidnap victims.

Tor Keley, investigator for the Britich Jockey Club, travels incognito on The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race Train.

Alexander Kinloch is a painter who lives in Scotland. Some thugs beat him up, looking for "it". Very good story, with interesting revelation at end.

Randall Drew, a jockey who needs glasses, goes to Moscow to find the elusive Alyosha.

Physicist/Schoolmaster Jonathan Derry deals with a handicapping computer program and the thugs that want it.

Sid Haley and his bionic arm track down the murderer of a jockey and a trainer, with the help of his cancer research chemist girlfriend and some DNA. What I like about Francis is you learn interesting technical stuff without being clobbered by it.

Sid Halley, the ex-jockey with the "bionic hand", is called upon to solve several complicated plots: His ex-wife and a charity; who is causing horses to get heart attacks; fradulent horse syndicates.

Film director Thomas Lyon is trying to film a movie based on a book about a local suicide, but some one keeps trying to knife people. Excellent story, tears at the end.