Dick Francis

When a strange tear in the cosmos appears within Earth’s annual path, the consequences are disastrous. For one night a year, the vast majority of humans now undergo a frightening mental change, transforming into hateful, rage-fueled zombies who will stop at nothing to satiate their desire for brutality. While not much is understood about this horrific mass hysteria, the demographic it effects is very specific: cisgender straight people. A few years after the first of these tragic events, four friends from across the queer spectrum look for safety in solitude, hunkering down in a remote desert cabin for what is now known as Saturation Day. With a vaccine available for straight people to curb their violent episodes, some predict the worst is over. Others aren’t so sure. As night falls, it becomes clear that survival isn’t guaranteed this Saturation Day. This is the first horror novella from two-time Hugo Award finalist Chuck Tingle.

Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle

Francis, der samtpfötige Klugscheißer, geht aufs Land. Was als gepflegter Ausbruch aus den häuslichen Verhältnissen beginnt, wird zu einer wahren Odyssee des Schreckens. Nur zu bald stößt Francis auf einen enthaupteten Artgenossen, und schon steckt er in einer mörderischen Geschichte um blinde Katzen und wilde Jäger, schlaue Verbündete und eine schöne Verführerin. Wenn einer in der Lage ist, die Mordserie zu beenden, dann der neugierige Katzendetektiv. Doch die Grausamkeit der Tiere und der Wahn des Menschen fordern ihren Tribut...

This time around Shell Scott gives up chasing downtown lowlifes for the uptown high-end kind. A mysterious and industrious industrialist trusts Scott with finding a stock swapper that seems to know too much. And too much is just the beginning. From big-time boardrooms to bawdy motel rooms our man Scott isn't about to sell these crooks short. Tempers flare and plots boil over but in this contest between Shell Scott and some bad guy big wigs, busty femme fatales and flying bullets, between life and death, the end could come right down to a Dead Heat.

Jockey Bill Davidson's accident seems suspicious to his friend Alan Yorke who goes back to check the fence where Bill Davidson fell, and finds length of wire on the ground. The wire disappears before the police arrive to check Alan's story, so he must find out what happened himself.

In Knock Down Jonah Dereham is working for a wealthy American woman by bidding on a young steeplechaser. After the auction, he gets assaulted and finds himself caught up in a mystery. In Slay Ride a champion jockey turns up missing right before the birth of his child and right before a big race. Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.

A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.

Selected to participate in an important fencing tournament, Frank becomes alarmed when the competition proves deadly, and after a top contender vanishes, the Hardy brothers suspect that a kidnapper is on the loose.

Scott Wilkinson is a successful young advertising executive on his way to the top. Christopher Miller is an FBI legend who has been willing to do whatever it takes to see that justice is done. However, at age 50, he is ready to spend more time with his family. Two weeks before Christmas, Scott goes on a routine business trip that will forever entangle their two lives. It starts like so many others. Wilkinson calls for a car service to take him from his home to the airport. But the driver of Lincoln Town Car No. 716 is late. When he finally shows up, he drives like a maniac, and Wilkinson feels fortunate to reach the airport alive. Then, he makes a big mistake. Wilkinson calls the limousine company to complain. Customer Service assures him the bad driver will be dealt with. Nicolai Kyznetsoff looks and sounds like all the anonymous others who whisk successful young executives back and forth to the airport every day, but the man behind the wheel of Car 716 is something much more sinister: an avenging dark angel who will stop at nothing to wreak revenge on the one man he holds responsible for ruining his life.

James Bond, jr, travels to Las Vegas to match wits with the mysterious Ms. Fortune in a gamble that has the fate of the world at stake

Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke goes undercover in the British racing industry to find those responsible for illegal horse-doping.

“Julian Trent, you have been found guilty by this court of perpetrating a violent and unprovoked attack on an innocent family including a charge of attempted murder. You have shown little or no remorse for your actions and I consider you a danger to society.”When defence barrister Geoffrey Mason hears the judge’s verdict, he quietly hopes that a long and arduous custodial sentence will be handed down to his arrogant young client. That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient. Little does Mason expect that he’ll be looking Trent in the eyes again much sooner than he’d ever imagined. Setting aside his barrister’s wig, Mason heads to Sandown to don his racing silks. An amateur jockey, his true passion is to be found in the saddle on a Thoroughbred, pounding the turf in the heat of a steeplechase. But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered – a pitchfork driven through his chest – Mason’s racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life. The prime suspect is one of their brethren, champion jockey Steve Mitchell; the evidence is overwhelming.Mason is reluctant to heed Mitchell’s pleas for legal advice – but soon he finds himself at the centre of a sinister web of threat and intimidation. Mason is left fighting a battle of right and wrong, and more immediately, a battle of life and death… his own.

One of the best Dick Francis books!