Author: James Hadley Chase Publisher: Stark House Press ISBN: 9781944520496 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
Two hardboiled 1940s novels which have never been previously published in U.S. paperback. In No Business of Mine, an American newspaperman tries to solve a London mystery involving the apparent suicide of his wartime lover. In Miss Shumway Waves a Wand, Chase creates a wild mixture of wisecracking humor and Mexican magic.
Author: James Chase Publisher: ISBN: 9781500345303 Category : Languages : en Pages : 194
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How come a New York reporter like Ross Millan was combing half of Mexico looking for old man Shumway's missing daughter? Millan had asked himself the question a dozen times-and when he found her, he asked himself a whole lot more questions. For the shapely blonde he'd seen in the photograph turned out to be a fast-talking lady who packed a punch like a prize-fighter, did a little magic on the side, and just happened to be a dip-a very efficient pickpocket. From the day little Miss Myra Shumway walked into Millan's life things were never quite the same...
Author: James Hadley Chase Publisher: Murder Room ISBN: 1471903818 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 203
Book Description
Larry Carr is a diamond expert in need of a break. So when his psychiatrist suggests he has a change of scene, he jumps at the opportunity to move to Luceville, a struggling industrial town, and become a social worker. This, he thinks, will give him all the rest he needs. But soon he runs into Rhea Morgan, a ruthless, vicious thief who also happens to be extremely attractive. He falls headlong into the criminal world and embarks upon a thrilling, rapid and dastardly adventure ...
Author: James Hadley Chase Publisher: House of Stratus ISBN: 1842321145 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 303
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George Fraser is a lonely man, and a bored man. But he has exciting dreams. In his dreams, he lives in a thrilling world of gangsters, guns, fast cars and beautiful women. And of course, in his dreams, he is the toughest gangster of them all. George Fraser prefers his dream world to his real, ordinary life so he begins to boast about it, pretending that he is, in fact, a hardened and ruthless gangster. But George Fraser boasts to the wrong people and suddenly his dream world becomes all too real.
Author: Lee Server Publisher: Infobase Publishing ISBN: 1438109121 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author: James Hadley Chase Publisher: ISBN: 9781944520267 Category : Blondes Languages : en Pages : 0
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In "Just the way it is," a gangster becomes romantically entangled with a newspaper woman who also happens to be the girlfriend of his associate. Her investigation into the inexplicable purchase of a seemingly worthless piece of land propels them both into an ever-unraveling mystery with plenty of twists.
Author: Gina Macdonald Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 456
Book Description
Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century.
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: James Chase
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: Lee Server
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: James Hadley Chase
Author: Gina Macdonald
Author: Ordean A. Hagen