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. A brave photo reporter whose life is ruined by a fatal Mexican beauty, a gang of swindlers trying to take possession of the inheritance of an eccentric old woman millionaire , are the heroes of the action-packed novels included in this collection: “Just a Matter of Time”, 1972); “The Way the Cookie Crumbles”, 1965 (Paradise City, Frank Terrell – 2); “Cade” (“Cade”, 1966). Translation: N. Krasnoslobodsky