Traveling north from Mexico in 1882, Shalako meets up with a group of touring Europeans in Apache country. He warns them of the Apaches, and they refuse to believe him until they are attacked. The tourists allow Shalako to take them to cover as the Apaches continue to battle them and the U.S. Army, which has been alerted. The final battle is between Shalako and Tats-ah-das-ay-go. Shalako wins, the remaining Europeans return to safety with the U.S....

Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance...

Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The...

While playing golf, Bobby Jones and Dr. Thomas discover a dying man at the base of a cliff. Before he dies, the man manages to get out the words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Days later, remembering things that don't seem to add up about the death, Bobby decides to investigate, and his friend Frances Derwent immediately agrees to help. Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death over a cliff? Or was it a something more sinister?...

A young woman discovers that her husband is not just a traveling salesman but doubles as a secret agent, leading to more sinister questions in a mysterious world of beautiful horses.

David Daunt had just been released from prison after serving nine years for the manslaughter of his cousin, Robin Daunt. When he reached his home town and reported to the police station with his parole paper, he was shocked to learn that his widowed mother had married his late father's brother - Robin's father! David didn't like any of the Daunts - there was bad blood in them all. He knew that danger awaited him at home...

From a New York Times–bestselling “master of crime fiction and equine thrills,” a horse breeder goes undercover to investigate a horse doping scheme (Newsday).
 
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
 
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a...