James Hadley Chase_10 Titles_Non Series_Bundle One - 'B to E'(Thriller; Crime; Pulp) EPUB

Clay Burden is a moderately successful travel agent, married to a sluttish wife, Rhoda, when suddenly, out of the past, comes Valerie, whom Clay had loved and idolized. Now Valerie is married to millionaire wheeler-dealer, Henry Vidal. When Vidal, impressed by Clay's abilities, gives him an offer to join his organization, Clay jumps at it. In this way, he would be next to Valerie all day. But he does not reckon for the complications that can arise out of such an arrangement. For one, Rhoda objects, but her misgivings are cast aside. Secondly, Vidal's financial dealings are mysterious and it appears that his organization can fold up in no time at all. And most importantly, Valerie is now a cranky, terrified woman, who beseeches Clay to rescue her from the hypnotic powers of her husband, Henry Vidal......



Marc Spewack, a New York private eye, is hired by an ageing industrialist, Wolf, in downtown Cranville, to trace three missing girls of the town. All three were blondes and their mysterious disappearances had become an election issue: Wolf, an undertaker named Esslinger and a gangster called Starkey, have set their sights on becoming mayor of Cranville. It turns out that Esslinger had hired Audrey, a gorgeous private detective operating solo in Cranville, with the same intention of tracing the missing girls. While Audrey and Marc take potshots at each other, another girl, Marian, disappears. The time has now come for joint operations, especially when Marc comes to know that Starkey's illegitimate daughter, Edna, is Wolf's mistress. And Audrey, herself, is now marked for murder....



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 affair of Claire Dolan... the most expensive relationship of his entire career.



A tale of addiction and obsession, and the dangers of both. Cade was at the top of his game. He was a photographer wanted by everyone. And then, on a beach in Acapulco, he met Juana Roca. Despite warnings that she is a danger to men, he proceeds to fall in love. From here things begin to spiral downwards for Cade as she saps the will out of him, drink begins to take hold and suddenly the money and the work are no longer there...



Private eye, Bart Anderson, of Parnell Detective Agency, Paradise City, was assigned the job of tailing Nancy Hamel, wife of millionaire author, Russ Hamel. The reason? Russ Hamel had implicit faith in his wife and merely wanted background material for his next novel - on how a detective works. Little did Hamel know that he was opening a can of worms, for Nancy was not the faithful, white-headed wife, as he imagined her to be. During the course of his investigations, Bart comes across a photograph of a woman, resembling Nancy. But this woman was wanted for two murders and was married to one of the most dangerous terrorists of Italy.....



It was the easiest £3,000 Nelson Ryan had ever made - but suddenly he realised he was being played for a sucker. A telephone call, seemingly innocent enough, led him to the murder of a Chinese call-girl who talked too much. It also pitched him straight into the teeming, sordid night life of colourful Hong Kong.From now on, Ryan would stick at nothing to get the killer who'd crossed him up.



It was the easiest £3,000 Nelson Ryan had ever made - but suddenly he realised he was being played for a sucker. A telephone call, seemingly innocent enough, led him to the murder of a Chinese call-girl who talked too much. It also pitched him straight into the teeming, sordid night life of colourful Hong Kong.From now on, Ryan would stick at nothing to get the killer who'd crossed him up.



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.



'Master of the art of deception' New Statesman

Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league.

Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers . . .

Biographical Notes

Born Ren? Brabazon Raymond in London, the son of a British colonel in the Indian Army, James Hadley Chase was educated at King's School in Rochester, Kent, and left home at the age of 18. He initially worked in book sales until, inspired by the rise of gangster culture during the Depression and by reading James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Despite the American setting of many of his novels, Chase (like Peter Cheyney, another hugely successful British noir writer) never lived there, writing with the aid of maps and a slang dictionary. He had phenomenal success with the novel, which continued unabated throughout his entire career, spanning 45 years and nearly 90 novels. His work was published in dozens of languages and over thirty titles were adapted for film. He served in the RAF during World War II, where he also edited the RAF Journal. In 1956 he moved to France with his wife and son; they later moved to Switzerland, where Chase lived until his death in 1985.




The two strands running through Clive Thurston's life are utterly incompatible. On the one hand is Carol, a rare bird in Hollywood, an actress with integrity and intelligence, and his own undistinguished literary output, a combination to bring him love, happiness and obscurity; on the other his fame, wealth and reputation-bringing play Rain Check, a one-off performance that cannot be repeated, and only Thurston knows why - and Eve.
Even Carol does not know of the torments Thurston suffers on account of Eve. The dreadful counterpoint approaches its climatic cadence, driving him to the brink of despair, as he faces professional ruin, degradation and death, until at last, modulating the Eve-theme, he seeks to lead the melody back to Carol.
Only James Hadley Chase could handle such a subject with such edge-of-chair assurance.