Books I've Read

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.

Jeff Hinkley is undercover as he tries to discover who is extorting money from the British Horseracing Authority. Also, he is trying to figure out his relationship with his girlfriend. And, he sister has bladder cancer.

Bill Russell is accused of murdering his wife, but he insists his brother-in-law must have done it.

Sid Halley #6. Retired rider Sid Halley (and his transplant hand) hear about racetrack corruption and decide to do something about it. Also, some marriage problems.

Miles races toboggans in St. Moritz, but he used to be a jockey.

Dr. Chris Reynolds, who works in the A&E, treats a man found at the racetrack who is unconscious.

Sid Halley back to, unwillingly, investigate corruption on the track. Good story!

Jeff Hinkley, investigator for the British Horseracing Association, come to the U.S. to help out his counterpart in the U.S. version.