James Hadley Chase (real name Rene Brabazon Raymond) is the author of more than eighty detective novels. J. H. Chase is a master of the “open” detective story, in which the reader is not confronted with the fact of committing a crime, but step by step participates in its preparation. The eighth volume includes three novels: “You Never Know What to Expect from a Woman,” telling about an insidious, experienced criminal, “Sniper” - a story that took place in the city of millionaires, in Paradise City, and “Double”, which tells the story of an actor trying to get out of the game imposed on him.