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. An attempt by a gang of swindlers to seize the money of an old millionaire, the exposure of a female killer, the tragic love of a photographer for a thief - the novels included in the fourth volume of the Collected Works tell about this: “Make The Corpse Walk” (“Make The Corpse Walk”, 1947); “An Evening Out” (“Tiger by the Tail”, 1954); “And life is so short! » (“But a Short Time to Live”, 1951). Translation: N. Krasnoslobodsky