A heart stopping collection of tales featuring some of the world's most famous horse races, as fast, furious and exhilarating as the sport of kings itself.

Contents:

• Introduction by Peter Haining
• Under Starter’s Orders by John Masefield
• 1 SPORT OF KILLERS: Mystery on the Course
  • The Protection Racket by Dick Francis
  • Nobbling the Favourite by Nat Gould
  • A Racing Swindle by Thomas Gaspey
  • Silver Blaze by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Won by a Neck by Leslie Charteris
  • The American Invasion by Frank Johnson
  • A Derby Horse by Michael Innes
  • The Horse That Died for Shame by Peter Tremayne
  • Murder on the Race Course by Julian Symons
  • The Body in the Horsebox [from Eavesdropper] by John Francome
• 2 DEAD WEIGHTS: Mayhem in the Saddle
  • Calling the Tune by Steve Donoghue
  • To Win a Race by Alfred Watson
  • Dead Cert by Leon Breaker
  • Nat Wedgewood Trapped by Jack Fairfax-Blakeborough
  • The Phantom Jockey by Bat Masters
  • Thoroughbred by Max Brand
  • My Old Man by Ernest Hemingway
  • Saratoga in August by Hugh Pentecost
  • The Photographer and the Jockey by James Holding
  • Ellen Keegan’s Revenge by Mary Ryan
• 3 FIXED ODDS: Crime and the Gamblers
  • Straight from the Horse’s Mouth by Edgar Wallace
  • A Story Goes with It by Damon Runyon
  • Had a Horse by John Galsworthy
  • Morning in the High Street by Barré Lyndon
  • The Crackler by Agatha Christie
  • Something Short of Murder by Henry Slesar
  • Born Gambler by Thomas Walsh
  • The Later Edition by Victor Bridges
  • Two and a Half Per Cent by Mark Daniel
  • En Famille by Ed Gorman