Dick Francis

Nerve is the second novel by British mystery novelist Dick Francis, published in 1964.

A closed-door enquiry has found a jockey guilty of the lowest possible crime--throwing a race for money. His reputation scarred, he's begun his own investigation--but asking the wrong questions just might get him killed.

Odds Against is a book written by Dick Francis.

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten—accountant and champion steeplechase jockey—knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, …

Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays detectives on the big screen. But when his godmother asks him to investigate her racehorses in South Africa, he's out of his depth. Soon enough, he's plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives that forces him to uncover a killer and give a bravura performance …

The three-time Edgar Award winner delivers a suspense-driven, finely crafted collection of thirteen short stories, many of them new and not published heretofore, including the story of a middle-aged racehorse owner who unwisely falls in love with her jockey. 250,000 first printing.