JAMES HADLEY CHASE

Hit and Run
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Published: 1978, UK, Corgi reissue

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Lucille Aitkin was the kind of woman who encouraged men to run around after her and most men were more than happy to do so - so why did she suddenly want to learn to drive rather than being chauffer-driven in style? And why was Chester Scott's Cadillac covered with bloodstains on the wrong side? And at the same time, why was patrol officer O'Brien run over on a deserted beach road when he should have been on duty on the highway? It seems that somebody knows how these events are connected, and whoever it is seems intent on blackmail.
Originally published under the pseudonym  Raymond Marshall.

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~ Helga Rolfe ~
2. The Joker in the Pack

Published: 1977, UK, Corgi 1st thus

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When Helga Rolfe flies into Nassau to join her elderly millionaire husband, Herman, she finds plenty of bad news awaiting her.
Crippled, suspicious Herman has long suspected she's been playing around since their marriage, and is proposing to write some nasty-looking terms into his will.
Herman is right, of course - Helga's weakness is for handsome, sexy men like Harry Jackson, whom she meets on the beach the day she arrives.
But Harry is not quite what she thinks - and because of him she suddenly finds herself in a nightmare world of blackmail, voodoo and violence...

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3. I Hold the Four Aces

Published: 1978, UK, Corgi 1st thus

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Helga Rolfe was blonde, beautiful, and bright enough to control her own multi-million empire. But not to control her secret weakness... she was sex crazy. And former lover, Archer, knew it. He had an old score to settle with her and he needed cash. When handsome gigolo Christopher Greenville crossed his path, he'd found the way to both.
With Archer's coaching, Chris conned Helga into wanting him badly enough to propose marriage, and when Archer faked Chris's kidnapping, she was ready to pay the huge ransom. But events took a frightening twist when the local Mafia joined the action.

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Condition of books (good)

Exterior: minor shelf wear, marks & creases; a little fading
Interior: tanned; mild foxing; single character written at front of 'Joker' in pencil
Binding: strong

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