If life is dear to you. Chase J.Kh.

For half a century of writing, the British author of detectives Rene Brabazon Reimond (1906–1985) published about ninety criminal novels and changed several creative pseudonyms. The most famous of them is James Hadley Chase.

“I, like a bloodhound, take a trace and I feel what the reader wants. And what he will buy ” - so the master explained the success of his novels, willingly revealing the golden -bearing secret: readers attract“ action and rhythm ”. The collection includes novels from the Paradise City cycle: “Hippie on the road!” (1970), “Sniper” (1970) and “If you are dear to life” (1971). In the resort town near Miami, life may seem quiet and measured only to the visiting person, and even then only at first glance. Employees of the local police department are best known how dark secrets can be hidden behind the dazzling facades of magnificent mansions and what is the true wrong side of life in the tropical paradise of the paradise-City...

In addition to novels, the book includes a collection of stories, “Short, A!" (1941) - a rare example of a short prose of the master.