Only one man could satisfy Glorie Leadler’s craving for love and affection. And though this golden-haired bit of feminine dynamite could have had a dozen men at her feet for the asking, it was a solitary Oriental who made her heart beat fast. Following a trail of bodies from the mean streets of Manhattan to the waterfronts of Key West, hard-talkin’ private detective Dave Fenner...
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He Won't Need it Now.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish.
The Dead Stay Dumb.
Twelve Chinks and A Woman.
Lady, Here's Your Wreath.
Get a Load of This.
Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief.
Just the Way It Is.
Blonde's Requiem.
Eve.
'll Get You For This.
Make the Corpse Walk.
More Deadly Than the Male.
No Business of Mine.
The Flesh of the Orchid....
A mysterious voice from the telephone; a beautiful Chinese girl shot dead; a rich old man with a troubled conscience; a private investigator involved in murder; a Chinese prostitute who talked too much; and a coffin. These are some of the intriguing ingredients of James Hadley Chase’s splendid thriller. It is definitely a book to keep you awake long after your bedtime.
Steve Jaffe, an American business man working in Saigon, discovers two million dollars worth of diamonds hidden in a wall of his rented villa. He learns that these diamonds belong to the Vietnam State; but he is determined to kept them for himself. The problem is how he is to smuggle the diamonds out of Vietnam and into Hong Kong.
An Ace Up My Sleeve' is a story of blackmail.
It's a story of three people, all out for one thing : all determined to do anything to get it.
It's a story of bluff and counter-bluff, a game which develops into a deadly battle of violence and extortion.
From the moment Helga Rolfe, the elegant wife of one of the richest of tycoons, picks up a gum-chewing boy, young enough to be...
The fragile thread that had been holding the tall man’s reason together snapped. This thread had been under strain for some months. Sooner or later it had to break.
In "Blonde’s Requiem," a private investigator is hired by an industrialist to find three missing girls; all blondes and all disappeared mysteriously. Their disappearances have become an election issue as the industrialist, an undertaker, and a gangster are all three aiming to become the next town’s mayor. To complicate things, a second private investigator is hired by the...
Panther, 1951. – 136 p.
A street photographer like Harry Ricks had to take chances sometimes, it was part of the job. But when he snapped a beautiful girl one evening in Leicester Square he didn't bargain on being beaten up in an alley and having the film torn from his camera... That was only the start of Harry's problems. Soon he was even more deeply involved in the strange...
A man facing penury will do almost anything when a rich and attractive woman offers him fifty thousand dollars, just to make a telephone call. But when the telephone call is part of a fake kidnap plan to extract five hundred thousand dollars from one of the richest men in the world, Felix Malroux, only a sucker would gamble on the deal paying off in his favour. And Harry Barber...
Every convict dreams of making a break - and Chet Carson did it. Then he had another break, when Jenson gave him a job at the lonely filling station. And then he met Lola, Jenson's sensual redhead wife.
But Jenson has a safe full of money, and Lola wants to feel it in her hands. Carson's the sucker she's been waiting for: "Open the safe and get me the money our you'll go back to...
Eve is a 1945 psychological thriller novel by James Hadley Chase.
Clive Thurston had swindled his way to fame. He thought he knew the ropes and women. Maybe he did. But he didn't know Eve, otherwise he'd have realized that he was just another fly stumbling into the deadly web of a woman who was beautiful to look at, but lethal to love.
When Perelli saved Vic Malloy's life, the private eye promised to return the favour - on the house, whenever required. Three weeks later, Perelli is framed on a kidnap charge. The victim, Dedrick, was married to Serena, one of the richest women in the world, who paid half a million dollars to get him back and apparently wasted her money. When Malloy starts investigating, all his...
Panther, 1951. – 138 p.
From the moment Lee Dedrick, husband of the fourth richest woman in the world, disappears, believed kidnapped, Vic Malloy of Universal Sendees is snarled up in a vicious vortex of murder, glamorous women and violent non-stop action. The curtain goes up on the sprawled, lifeless body of Dedrick's chauffeur, shot to death by an unknown hand. A frightened...
My dear Cherry. Some time ago you warned me against writing short stories. You stressed that the public didn't like them, and that I would be heading for a big flop if I persisted. Your views have always proved sound, so I've laid off until now. My present activities don't permit me to tackle a full-length novel, but as I have a number of situations up my sleeve I have been...
1974. — 138 p. 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 set up in the self-service shop in an attempt to catch petty shoplifters, it comes as rather a surprise when some dark...
Bill Duffy is a newsman, a real pro photographer. He lives hard, drinks hard and he's tough, except where women are concerned. And when he finds himself with ravishingly beautiful woman in her apartment very late one night, it takes all his willpower to resist, willpower, and a very mangled corpse which somehow fell down the elevator shaft. And that was only the beginning....
Lucille Aitken had the kind of body that made men look at her with the kind of eyes you usually see in hungry animals. The very thought of her left Ches feeling as if he'd been hit with a sledgehammer, his mouth dry, heart humping. She was a real knock-out. A lovely lady who had no business being married to a baby-snatching tycoon more than twice her age. Ches had only known her...
Chester Cain, gunman and gambler, finds his vacation at Paradise Springs rudely interrupted by the City Administrator, who uses a luscious woman to trap Cain into a murder frame-up.
From then on the action, punctuated by gunfire, moves like an express train, as Cain ploughs his way through violence and adventure to bring this fast-moving thriller to an explosive climax.
Corgi, 1951. – 118 p.
Frank Mitchell is bored and restless when he spots the ad for a bodyguard. He's tired of feeling like a kept man. So when he finds that Mr. Sarek needs someone to protect him against a series of threatening letters, he jumps at the chance to get away from Netta and her smothering love. On the surface, Sarek looks like a harmless little guy in a loud coat...
Harry Duke had a reputation both as a gambler and someone you didn't mess with, as he'd once killed a man. Then someone tries to make it look like he's killed again. A neat frame up. But Duke's still got some aces in his hand. Aces, and a gun.
James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), real name René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, was an English author who became one the best known thriller...
Over the phone, her voice was metallic. And she had offered journalist Nick Mason a hefty sum to expose a murder frame-up. Mason, intrigued had gone along to the gas chamber to see Vessi die. Before the pellets hit the acid, Vessi insisted on his innocence. His last words gave Mason the clue to some odd business going on at the respectable Mackenzie Fabric Corporation. When he was...
It was odd that a healthy young heiress like Janet Crosby should die of heart failure. Odder still that on the day she died she sent a note and $500 to Vic Malloy, private investigator, asking him to trace the person who was blackmailing her sister.
Intrigued by the note, Malloy tried to see Maureen Crosby but only got as far as her nurse - a curvaceous blonde with an engaging...
Corgi, 1950. – 142 p.
It was odd that a healthy young heiress like Janet Crosby should die of heart failure. Odder still that on the day she died she sent a note and $500 to Vic Malloy, private investigator, asking him to trace the person who was blackmailing her sister.
Jay Benson, fresh out of the U.S. Army after years of service - three of them as a sniper in Vietnam. His newly acquired wife Lucy - easy on the eye...but with much more to her than meets the eye. The newly acquired school of marksmanship bought by Benson - but quickly losing money. And the menacing appearance of a South American gang boss with the proposition - train my son,...
Corgi, 1950. — 162 p.
A small French resistance group came to London after the war to avenge the death of their leader, betrayed to the Gestapo by one of their own members. But the traitor, Mallory, proved more than a match for them, and two corpses later, the remaining three called in outside help. They chose Martin Corridon, an ex-commando, who accepted the job and planned a...
Banned in the UK! Author and Publisher Fined! Not seen in 70 Years! This is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved them. This is also the story of Raven, who played with clockwork trains, the leader of the...
How come a hot-shot New York reporter like Ross Milan is combing the Mexican desert, looking for old man Hamish Shumway's missing daughter, Myra? Myra is a shapely blonde, fast talking, who packs a punch like a fighter and is also a very efficient pickpocket. But the day she gets magical powers from a Mexican shaman, things are never the same again. This is one crazy, roller...
160 p. Second of two books about millionaire playboy Don Micklem. The first is “Mission To Venice” (1954). For both books Chase used the name Raymond Marshall. Crantor had extensive facial damage in the war and didn’t wait for complete plastic surgery. He’s in a hotel room waiting for Lorelli. She wants to know if he’s gotten someone to murder a rich man named Ferenci. No...
Panther Books, 1973. — 172 p.
Mission to Venice narrates the story of Don Micklem, a wealthy American playboy, who is on his way to Venice for a vacation. He is approached by a mysterious woman named Hilda Tregarth. She tells Don that her husband, John Tregarth, who had gone to Venice a month back, is missing without a trace. She asks him to help find her husband, and Don...
Robert Hale Ltd, 1947. – 248 p.
«No Business of Mine» is a 1947 psychological thriller novel by James Hadley Chase.
Post-World War II American newspaper correspondent Steve Harmas comes to London on official business, only to find that his one-time girlfriend Netta Scott has committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Not believing that she would kill herself, Steve...
James Hadley Chase. No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Novel. Harlequin Books. USA. 1939. 138 pages. When Dave Fenner was hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knew the on finding the girl were against him - the cops were still looking for her three months after the ransom had been paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, had disappeared in to thin air. But what none of...
Who murdered Lucille Balu, a rising young film star, found strangled to death in a hotel elevator? Set against the background of the fabulous Côte d'Azur and the Cannes Film Festival, Chase's new thriller tells the story of a young degenerate with an inner compulsion to kill.
148 p. Fay Benson, a night-club dancer had been missing for 14 months but the police still didn't know if she was alive or dead. So when Chet Sladen, a journalist, began his own investigation, he didn't expect to find very much. Clues lead him to Tampa City which had the most inefficient, uncooperative police force in the country. The city was crawling with rackets, and the...
116 p. This is the story of Terry Regan, radio and T.V. salesman, who falls in love with Gilda, the wife of a hard drinking bully who spends his life in a wheel-chair. Because of Gilda’s fatal fascination, Regan decides to get rid of her husband so that he himself can marry her; and he hits on an ingenious murder plan. The murderer is to be the television set that stands in the...
_, 1951. – 150 p.
Johnny Farrar is a third-grade boxer, thumbing a ride to Miami, where he figures he can hit a jackpot. As fate would have it, he has a brush with gangsters in Pelotta, a small town on the way, only to be persuaded to fight a fixed boxing match and earn some money, a suit of clothes and a beat-up car, so he can arrive in Miami in style. But a woman's looks and...
New York: Grafton, 2011. — 158 p. 'Strictly for cash' is the story of how Johnny Farrar made his roll of money. He started out to make five thousand and ended up with a quarter of million. But he didn't get it by legitimate means. And as a result, he found himself in big trouble. From the moment the reins of the richest casino on the Florida coast fell into his hands, he was...
Strictly for cash' is the story of how Johnny Farrar made his roll of money. He started out to make five thousand and ended up with a quarter of million. But he didn't get it by legitimate means. And as a result, he found himself in big trouble. From the moment the reins of the richest casino on the Florida coast fell into his hands, he was sucked into a whirlpool of suspense,...
Originally published in 1941. The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark realism. Chase's second book.
James Hadley Chase (1906–1985), real name René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, was an English author who became one the best known thriller writers of all time.
Fenner opened one eye as Paula Dolan put some elegant curves and her
fluffy head round his office door. He regarded her vaguely, and then
settled himself more comfortably. His large feet rested on the snowy
blotting-pad, and the swivelled desk-chair inclined perilously at an
angle of 45'. He said sleepily, ' away, Dizzy, I'll play with you later.
Horwitz, 1952. – 178 p.
Why would an obscure blonde dancer who performed in a G-string - with a deadly snake for a partner - be insured for a million dollars?
That was what Steve Harmas, special investigator, had to try and find out. It was supposed to be simply a publicity stunt - a trick to get Susan Gellert's name in the newspapers - but somebody stood to gain an awful lot...
1952. — 150 p.
Thief Paul Hater has a secret of great value. Arrested with a stolen necklace, he begins a twenty-year sentence without revealing where the hoard is. The International Detective Agency, acting for the insurers, await his release, but as the day approaches, Hater is kidnapped by a ruthless international gang determined to get the secret first.
Carol Blandish was the voluptuous daughter of Miss Blandish, and only granddaughter of millionaire John Blandish. The trouble was that she had been conceived when her mother had been kidnapped and repeatedly raped by mentally degenerate Slim Grissom. Carol herself suffers from a split personality and has to be confined in a high security mental asylum. She is the only heiress to...
St. Raphael was the place they called Vacation City - a millionaire's playground of exclusive clubs and pretty girls with expensive tastes.
Inquiry Agent, Lew Brandon, flew to the City after receiving a message from his partner that he was involved on a big case and needed help ; Brandon didn't realised just how fast until he arrived in St. Raphael and found Jack Cheppey dead -...
Hard, ruthless, amoral... that was Julie Holland - a good-time girl who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted. And when the chance came to play a major role in a furs robbery she jumped at it. Luck smiled on her for even when everything went wrong with the plot and the gang-leader was arrested for a murder of which he was innocent, Julie still emerged from it with a...
Val Burnett was the attractive daughter of a multimillionaire. Her pleasantly organised life had been cruelly shattered when her husband, Chris received severe brain injuries in a car crash. While convalescing in Florida, Chris disappeared for twenty-four hours, leaving no message or trace of his whereabouts.
During the same night an attractive blonde was found brutally murdered...
Выходные данные неизвестны A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker, Fennel, a beautiful, professional seductress, Gaye, an expert young white hunter, Kennedy, and an ace pilot with a shady past, Garry - this was the team that undercover operator, Armo Shalik assembled to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded personal museum in a remote...
Panther books, 1952. – 128 p.
The sensuous splendour of Lago Maggiore, Milan and Florence is a setting for a ruthless murder plan... a sinister danse macabre, the first steps of which are taken when a young army deserter falls into the hands of a wealthy and cruel woman planning to kill her husband and step-daughter. But, unexpectedly, Fate intervenes and sets a deadly trap for...
130 p. This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn't be interested? The only catch is that it’s the very definition of impossible…or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go...
126 p. Glyn Nash, a part-time multi-talented freelance worker, one day rescues Hollywood director Erle Dester from being run over in a drunken state. The director soon takes him home and impressed with Nash, appoints him as his personal assistant and chauffeur, much against the wishes of his beautiful but shady wife Helen Dester. She repeatedly tells Nash to leave by offering...
The brutal murder of June Arnot, famous screen actress, and the massacre of all her servants is just the curtain raiser to this chill-a-page novel. The D.A. suspects that June Arnot was the mistress of Jack Maurer, boss of a billion dollars' worth of rackets. For fifteen years he has been trying to bring Maurer to trial. Is this the opportunity he has been waiting for? His case...
One night of midsummer madness. and Ken Holland, a respectable, married bank official, jeopardises his happiness and his future. The sudden temptation to kick over the traces while his wife is away lands Holland up to his ears in a vortex of political intrigue and murder. Set against a background of gangster politicians, blackmailers, gunmen and hard-boiled characters, the action...
The story is based in the World War II era, when Edwin Cushmann, political double crosser, changes his identity to David Ellis to escape the Allied Forces. He eventually meets a deaf girl named Grace Clark, who is trying hard to survive, whom he uses for protection, and both run to London, where Cushmann fractures his leg, and is left at the mercy of Grace, who cares for him like...
When a curvaceous, beautiful girl walks into your office, strips, and offers you a $6,000 retainer to help her out of the trouble she's in, it's hard to refuse.
Especially if you're private eye Dave Fenner, the man who busted the notorious Blandish case.
But by the time Dave had been beaten half to death and been forced to shoot his way out of a load of very unhealthy...
About the worst we have had for months.' He reached for his pipe, looking affectionately at his wife, whom he had married some thirty years ago. Regarding her, he remembered her as a young girl, bright-eyed with long dark hair. Now, thirty years on, Mary had filled out, but she still had magic for him.
Corgi, 1951. – 138 p. Milly Lawes a Piccadilly streetwalker, found a strange ring in her room one day. An hour later she was dead, and the ring gone. Scotland Yard knew all about the ring though; so did the Secret Service, and before very long, did Martin Corridon, ex-Commando, ex-M15, ex-ethics of any kind... Corridon didn't really want to know, didn't want to work with the...
Helen Chalmers had the kind of figure which could make a man do almost anything she wanted. So when she asked Ed Dawson to spend a month alone with her in a secluded Italian villa, he found himself accepting, even though it was against his better judgement.
His judgement told him he was crazy, that involvement, with Helen would mean trouble as her father, apart from being one of...
Veda Rux, a beautiful blonde, known professionally as a stripper, steals a priceless Cellini dagger from the safe in millionaire Lindsay Brett's home. Her agent, Cornelius Gorman, approaches Floyd Jackson, a private investigator and first-rate blackmailer, and asks him to return the dagger before the theft is discovered.
Jackson should have known there was something wrong with...
New York: ELB Publishing, 2011. — 238 p. Veda Rux, a beautiful blonde, known professionally as a stripper, steals a priceless Cellini dagger from the safe in millionaire Lindsay Brett's home. Her agent, Cornelius Gorman, approaches Floyd Jackson, a private investigator and first-rate blackmailer, and asks him to return the dagger before the theft is discovered. Jackson should...
Popular library, 1949. – 178 p.
Jay Frankling Cerf, the president of a six million-dollar navigation company, keep a check on his wife's expenditure and passbook. suddenly, he notices an increase in her bank withdrawals up to the tune of fifteen thousand dollars which he suspects his wife is using to pay as ransom. He employs the services of a private investigator to monitor...
First edition. Robert Hale, 1955. — 142 p.
Harry Griffin, ace Californian Air Transport Corporation pilot, is fired from service and has a relationship with ex model and actress Glorie Dane, who has seen many a man come and go in her life, but loves Harry more than herself and does not want to lose him.Harry soon decides to steal a set of diamonds worth 3 million dollars from a...
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