Books I've Read

The purple gang was a group of booze smugglers and illegal gambling operators in Detroit. Also tagged Detroit's Kosher Nostra.

A recounting of the investigation into the murder of a boy in Ypsilanti in 1935. A quick read!

Jake is suspended from college for drinking, and decides to get a job at the "steel mill" his father and grandfather worked at. He meets men of a much different background than he, and learns a bit about how the world really is before he goes back to college. I enjoyed reading this novel, but I kept projecting myself into the Jake character, except Jake is rather smarter than I am!

Cowgirl and folk museum director Benni Harper finds out who killed the old man at the prom.

Jessie is kidnapped, shanghaied, if you will, by the crew of a slave trader.

Young Benedict Juliard helps his father win an election, and a few years later he solves a crimes from back then.

A bank loans money to buy a race horse.

Gene Hawkins, a British government agent, looks for a missing horse in the United States. Kinda hard-boiled sorta guy. Sleeps with a Luger.

Two of the Princessesssss' horses were killed and "Kit" Fielding want to prove that the extortionist did it.

Neil Griffon takes over his father's racing stables after an accident while his father mends, and some psycho Italian makes him takes on his son as an apprentice.

Jockey "Kit" Fielding finds out who is spreading lies about his sister and her husband and their stables.

Sid Halley returns to find out who is multilting young horses. Very good story.

Diplomat Peter Darwin (no relation) returns to the site of his youth to find out who is causing the death of the horses his new friend Ken (a vet) has operated on.

Co-authored with Felix Francis. Tom comes back from the war in Afghanistan missing foot to stay with his horse-trainer mother. Good, dependable (as The Seattle Times said)horses-and-crime story. My only question is, what happened to Tom's watch?

Jockey Alan York tries to find out why his friend was killed during a horse race.

Chef Max caters a meal and 200 or so people get sick. REALLY sick. And then there's the bomb. And later, his house is burned. And before that, his brakes are tampered with. And he meets a hot viola player. But later, he gets whacked with a polo mallet, then nearly blown up again! Yikes! Good stuff, better than his last book, I think. And always remember to boil the kidney beans!

Builder/Architect Lee Morris takes care of old business at the relatives horse racing track.

Freddie Croft owns a fleet of horse vans. He tells is drivers not to pick up hitchhikers, but one does and the guy drops dead during the ride. Very good story.

Jockey Kelly Hughes loses his riding licence (Eng. Spelling) and tries to find out who set him up. I wonder what kind of Lotus he drives?

Written with his son, Felix Francis. A bookie meets his father after 37 years, then dad is murdered. Pretty good!