RIP Dick Francis.

DICK FRANCIS born Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) 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. On his retirement from the sport he published his autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write forty-one bestselling novels, a volume of short stories (Field of 13), and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world.

Dick Francis is the winner of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger and the only three-time recipient of the Mystery Writer of America’s Edgar Award for Best Novel, winning for Forfeit in 1970, Whip Hand in 1981, and Come to Grief in 1996, the same year he was make a Grand Master for a lifetime’s achievement. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2000.

NOVELS

Dead Cert
Nerve
For Kicks
Odds Against
Flying Finish
Blood Sport
Forfeit
Enquiry
Rat Race
Bonecrack
Smokescreen
Slayride
Knockdown
High Stakes
In the Frame
Risk
Trial Run
Whip Hand
Reflex
Twice Shy
Banker
The Danger
Proof
Break In
Bolt
Hot Money
The Edge
Straight
Longshot
Comeback
Driving Force
Decider
Wild Horses
Come to Grief
To the Hilt
10 LB. Penalty
Field of Thirteen
Second Wind
Shattered
Under Orders
Dead Heat
Silks
Even Money