Knihy od: Francis, D.

Bert Checkov was a Fleet Street racing correspondent with a talent for tipping non-starters. But the advice he gave to James Tyrone a few minutes before he fell to his death, was of a completely different nature. James investigates, and soon finds his own life, and that of his wife,...

At twenty to midnight Neil Griffon’s home is broken into and he is roughly abducted by masked men. He has no idea who they are, or what they want. But when Neil wakes up, hours later, he quickly discovers that unless he cooperates his kidnappers will destroy his father’s precious...

Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield had been barred from racing--for throwing a race for personal profit. It was a vicious frame-up and, worse, they had nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refused to take the phony verdict lying down--even though his personal enquiry might have...

Nigel Havers stars in this dramatization of a Dick Francis racing thriller. When a runaway horsebox causes death and destruction at a party to celebrate the success of the racing season, it seems at first like a terrible accident. But the investigations soon indicate otherwise.

Dick Francis is no ordinary mystery writer, and jockey Philip Nore is no ordinary hero. When Nore begins to suspect that a track photographer's fatal accident was really murder, he sets out to discover the truth and to trap the killer. Slowly, he unravels some nasty secrets of corruption, blackmail...

Randall Drew is sent to Moscow to investigate threats against a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic games. His brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high.

Max Moreton ist der jüngste Stern an Englands Sternekoch-Himmel. Doch sein Ruf ist gefährdet: Lebensmittelvergiftung nach einem Galadiner - das könnte das Ende seiner Karriere bedeuten. Der Meisterkoch kämpft um seinen Namen - und um sein Leben.

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...

A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious 'Aloysha' has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew knows more about horses than Russians - and more about farming than spying. Yet he still finds himself Moscow-bound, armed...

Vashemu vnimaniju predlagaetsja sbornik romanov D.Frensisa.

Tragizm raboty detektiva zakljuchaetsja v tom, chto poroj prihoditsja prolivat svet na fakty, kotorye lomajut zhizn ljudjam. Etu gorkuju istinu esche raz podtverdilo rassledovanie, predprinjatoe byvshim zhokeem, a nyne chastnym detektivom Sidom Holli. Ved glavnym podozrevaemym okazyvaetsja ego luchshij drug, vseobschij ljubimets, zvezda televidenija Ellis Kvint.

Proizvedenija Dika Frensisa prekrasno sochetajut v sebe traditsii klassicheskogo anglijskogo detektiva i sovremennogo trillera. V etot tom, otkryvajuschij polnoe sobranie sochinenij pisatelja, voshli ego klassicheskie romany "Favorit" i "Vtoroe dyhanie". Glavnye geroi okazyvajutsja uchastnikami tsepi zagadochnyh sobytij i volej obstojatelstv nahodjat podtverzhdenija togo, chto proizoshedshie neschastnye sluchai na samom dele...

Exjockey Sid Halley, der sich nach einem Sturz gezwungen sah umzusatteln und der seither als Privatdetektiv tätig ist, kommt auf der Rennbahn von Cheltenham einem Wettbetrug auf die Spur. Die Polizei hat keine Zeit, sich um den Fall zu kümmern. Deshalb nimmt Sid Halley die Sache selbst in die Hand...

Priderzhat loshad? Obchistit kassu totalizatora, poka napugannye zriteli tolpami pokidajut tribuny? Podsunut napichkannuju narkotikami morkovku favoritu prestizhnogo stipl-cheza? Da, takov mir skachek. I prichiny etomu - alchnost, gordost i zavist, vechnye poroki cheloveka. Dik Frensis veren sebe: zhizn dazhe na takom malenkom klochke zemli, kak skakovaja dorozhka ippodroma, nepredskazuema, vremenami...

Smert fotografa Dzhordzha Millesa ponachalu ne privlekla k sebe osobogo vnimanija, i lish posle togo, kak neizvestnye zhestoko izbili ego vdovu, a potom podozhgli ego dom, stalo jasno, chto kto-to ochen zainteresovan v tom, chtoby najti i unichtozhit arhiv Millesa. No sluchajno korobka s poluisporchennymi negativami okazalas u zhokeja Filipa...

There are few thriller writers who have had such long and distinguished careers as Dick Francis, and his lengthy series of books (with their zesty recreations of the racing world) are among many readers´ favourite novels in the genre. Recently, ill-health seemed to threaten the author´s reliable productivity, and the...

´I wondered if I was dying. I wasn´t afraid to die, but such was the pain in my gut, I wished it would happen soon.´ The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner at...

After collaborating on Dead Heat (2007), bestseller Francis and his son, Felix, deliver another gripping thriller with a thoroughbred racing backdrop. Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a series of threatening messages from a former client, Julian Trent, whose conviction for assault was...

Gene Hawkins woke on the first day of his holiday with his hand on the Luger under his pillow, and a ringing in his ears. His boss was on the phone, inviting him on a family boat trip up the Thames. Keeble didn´t fraternise with his employees unless he wanted...

No jockey likes being labelled a cheat. Least of all by a Stewards´ Enquiry. Kelly Hughes career looks doomed. He knows he´s been framed, but finding the reason could prove dangerous. Especially with a killer on his tail...Hughes´ own enquiry uncovers dynamite that could blow the racing world to smithereens....