Measure seven times (soft cover). 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 the novels “Seven times measure” (1980) and “There is no doubt about it” (1980) related to the “Paradise City” cycle. The great specialist in thefts of works of art, Ed Haddon, turns to the owner of the semi -legal gallery Claude Kendrik to help him sell the old Russian icon stolen from the exhibition. The buyer was found, but demands to deliver a masterpiece to Zurich... The lord actor Jerry Stevens receives an unusual proposal: to portray the famous billionaire for the duration of his absence. However, generously paid work “double” turns into a real nightmare...