Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead
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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 ...
James Hadley Chase
James Hadley Chase was a pseudonym for Rene Brabazon Raymond. Born in England on Christmas Eve, 1906, Chase left home at the age of eighteen and worked at a number of different jobs before he settled on being a writer.
With a map and a slang dictionary, Chase wrote his first book, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in six weeks. It was published in 1939 and became one of the best-sold books of the decade. It was later made into a stage play in London and then into a film in 1948, and finally remade in 1971 by Robert Aldrich as The Grissom Gang. Chase went on to write more than 80 mysteries before his death on February 6, 1985.
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