Hand Me a Fig Leaf by James Hadley Chase

››› Free download audio book. ‹‹‹ Original Title: Hand Me a Fig Leaf ISBN: 1842321056 ISBN13: 9781842321058 Autor: James Hadley Chase Rating: 4 of 5 stars (862) counts Original Format: Paperback, 209 pages Download Format: PDF, FB2, DJVU, iBook. Published: July 1st 2002 / by House of Stratus / (first published March 24th 1981) Language: English Genre(s): Mystery >Crime- 2 users Thriller- 2 users Mystery- 2 users Fiction- 2 users Novels- 1 user

Description: When Johnny Jackson unaccountably disappears, his grandfather contacts the police for help. As they prove to be uninterested, he turns instead to Colonel Parnell of the Parnell Detective Agency. It seems at first to be a simple case of a missing person but they soon find themselves in the middle of a complicated web of deceit, intrigue and murder.

About Author:

René Lodge Brabazon Raymond was born on 24th December 1906 in London, England, the son of Colonel Francis Raymond of the colonial Indian Army, a veterinary surgeon. His father intended his son to have a scientific career, was initially educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. He left home at the age of 18 and became at different times a children's encyclopedia salesman, a salesman in a bookshop, and executive for a book wholesaler before turning to a writing career that produced more than 90 mystery books. His interests included photography (he was up to professional standard), reading and listening to classical music, being a particularly enthusiastic opera lover. Also as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models. In 1932, Raymond married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. They were together until his death fifty three years later. Prohibition and the ensuing US Great Depression (1929–1939), had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture just prior to World War II. This, combined with her book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. He wrote as , James Hadley Chase, , and . During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, achieving the rank of Squadron Leader. Chase edited the RAF Journal with David Langdon and had several stories from it published after the war in the book Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology. Raymond moved to France in 1956 and then to Switzerland in 1969, living a secluded life in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, on Lake Geneva, from 1974. He eventually died there peacefully on 6 February 1985.

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Rewiews:

Jan 05, 2014 Kulpreet Yadav Rated it: it was amazing The plot is delicious. Can’t think of another, more suitable word. Through the rise and fall of actions, the events in the plot are interwoven intricately. As one would expect from the master of the crime fiction genre. Before I had turned 20, I had read all the JHC books. And now, after so many years, reading them all over again equals the excitement I felt earlier, even though, as we know, the forensic science, communication technology and the medical science have grown many times over in the The plot is delicious. Can’t think of another, more suitable word. Through the rise and fall of actions, the events in the plot are interwoven intricately. As one would expect from the master of the crime fiction genre. Before I had turned 20, I had read all the JHC books. And now, after so many years, reading them all over again equals the excitement I felt earlier, even though, as we know, the forensic science, communication technology and the medical science have grown many times over in the interim years. Fred Jackson, a crippled old man, writes to his dead military-hero son’s ex-boss who now runs a detective agency, to help him find his missing grandson, Johnny. Fred lives in a country house and says the police won’t help him. The agency assigns the case to Dirk Wallace. It looks routine, until Dirk drives to Fred’s house to find him murdered and all his savings stolen. As Dirk digs deeper, he is attacked by professional killers. Drugs, murder, greed, impersonation, strip clubs, Dirk has a lot of work to do before he can even remotely come to terms with the truth. How he does that is the meat of the story. The sheer complexity of this investigative story entertained me really well. Highly recommended.