In the year that the Second World War broke out, James Hadley Chase (1906-85) published his crime novel, No Orchids For Miss Blandish (1939), which subsequently became one of the best-selling mysteries of all time. “The Mirror in Room 22” is...
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Victor Dermott, a successful playwright, rent an isolated ranch house in the Nevada Desert where he plans to write another play. With his wife, baby, a Vietnamese servant and a dog, he settles down in the ranch house to work. For the first two...
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Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator? Set against the background of the fabulous Cote d’Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, James Hadley Chase’s new thriller tells the story of a young...
Eastlake is the kind of place where ‘nice’ people live — nice, well-off, civilised people. People who know all about each other and where everyone knows everyone else’s business — rather like living in a goldfish bowl. So when scanners are...
Keith Devery arrived in the small town of Wicksteed with a criminal record and a lot of ambition. And when he met Frank Marshall. a local drunk who was about to inherit a million dollars, he knew that here was a golden opportunity to get back into...
Out of the past comes a woman Clay Burden had loved and idolized. Believing she was lost to him, he has married. He finds she too has married. To him the situation presents no problem: a double divorce and the problem is solved. It doesn’t work...
Чак завжди мріяв про красиве життя. Азартні ігри, жінки, легкі гроші — ось що було йому до смаку. І ось нарешті удача посміхнулася йому....
«Ви караєте не ту людину. Я цього не робив. Розкрий цю справу, Мейсоне...» — це були останні слова Вессі перед його смертю у газовій...
У новому романі Дж. Г. Чейза гостросюжетна лінія знову переплітається з напруженим детективом. Четверо грабіжників-відчайдухів і...
Роман Джеймса Гедлі Чейза «Це не моя справа» написаний 1947 року. Щойно відгриміла війна, але наслідки її все ще відчувалися повсюдно....