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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 thousand a year and a Mayfair flat.
But she was not satisfied yet — and the inevitable fate of the over-greedy awaited her.



Safer Dead is a 1954 crime-mystery novel by James Hadley Chase.[1] The novel has Chet Sladen, a journalist, investigating the murder of Fay Benson, a night-club dancer.
Plot summary

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 Commissioner was hand in glove with all of them. Sladen finds Fay Benson's body at the bottom of Lake Baldock, inside a barrel of cement. He follows clues which leads to numerous murders related to the Benson case but ultimately much to the detest of the Commissioner, Sladen solves the mystery.



Hijacking aircrafts seems to have become the latest fashion. Everyone is at it. Colonel Bernie Olson, ex-bomber pilot, decides to cash in on this latest trend and enlists the support of his ex-flight mechanic, Jack Crane, to lend a hand. Planning a simple hijack shouldn't be that difficult, but they soon discover that they didn't account for every eventuality. This is no ordinary hijack and the plot twists and turns in true Hadley Chase style until it reaches a thrilling, nail-biting conclusion.



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 challenge make him forget the fixed match, and soon he is running out of town, with the woman, Della, who is the wife of casino boss, Paul Wertham.

The getaway car is involved in a crash and Wertham dies. Della's idea is simple but dangerous: Johnny has to impersonate Jack Ricca, manager of the Los Angeles casino and arrive at the Lincoln Beach casino, managed by Reisner, who has never seen Ricca. Della and Farrar would collect half a million from the Lincoln Beach casino, ostensibly on the instructions of the owner, Wertham, who is already dead...

But Della is not just after the cash reserves of the Lincoln Beach casino; she wants to take over the entire casino herself, and she wants Johnny as a partner - provided he remains faithful to her. But Johnny falls in love with a local girl, Virginia, and the real Ricca of Los Angeles arrives in Lincoln Beach.
Hardcover
Published May 1st 1966 by Panther



Chad Winter's violent infatuation for a woman inspired him to attempt what he thought would be the perfect murder. But murder's never that simple ...



It was one of Harry Collins' rules, never to stop for a hitchhiker. But when he saw a pretty girl standing forlornly by her broken down Buick, he decided to make an exception to his rule - an exception that was going to get him into a load of trouble. For the girl was Gloria Selby, rich and attractive, with an uncanny talent for making money. And when she discovered that Harry's garage business wasn't going too well, she presented him with a scheme to make him rich. But the scheme was to rob a big consignment of industrial diamonds from the sorting office of the local post office, which was adjacent to Harry's garage. Since Harry was the honest type, he was first seduced by Gloria, his pictures taken and then he was blackmailed into submission by Gloria's associates. But robbery and crime are never so easy......



MISS ARNOT IS IN THE SWIMMING POOL, MINUS HER HEAD...

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 depends on one terrified and unwilling eye-witness, but can she survive Maurer's vengeance and be persuaded to talk... ?

Sergeant O'Brien, a tall thin man with hard eyes and a flock of freckles, came out of the lounge. " Found anything ? " Bardin asked. " Some slugs, nothing else. No finger-prints that aren't accounted for. It's my guess the killer just walked in, shot down everyone in sight and then walked out again without touching a thing. "



One night of midsummer madness and Kenway Holland, a respectable, married bank official, jeopardizes 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 of this explosive thriller takes place over a period of only thirty hours. But what hours they are!



Trusted Like the Fox is a 1948 thriller novel written by British author James Hadley Chase. The novel is also alternately titled Ruthless.


Plot

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 her own. Soon both come across a gentleman stranger by name Richard Crane, who shelters them in his house and does too many things for them, which leaves Grace highly impressed, even to the extent of believing that Crane is in love with her, but Cushmann highly suspicious.

Meanwhile the police are after Cushmann, and a girl who is believed to be with him. The local inspector James gets suspicious about Cushmann being in London, and begins to investigate with his subordinate Rogers. The rest of the story is about what happens to the three main characters.



Ed Haddon, an expert art thief, approaches the notorious fence, Claude Kendrick of Paradise City, with a irresistible proposition: to find a buyer for the icon of Catherine the Great, which he proposes to steal from the Soviet art exhibition in the US. Herman Radnitz, international wheeler-dealer, is interested in buying the stolen icon from Kendrick - he wants to use it for bargaining with the Soviet Union to get a billion dollar contract and also to double-cross Kendrick, who had failed to deliver the goods once before. Radnitz wants the icon to be delivered to Zurich as part of the deal. At his wit's end, Kendrick learns of a couple traveling to Europe; all he has to do is to make sure that the stolen art object is planted on them unawares - for by this time, the US and Soviet security and intelligence agencies have swung into action. However, the couple are none other than Detective Tom Lepski of the Paradise police force and his feisty wife, Carroll. So things are bound to get exciting....