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 eleventh volume of the Collected Works includes three novels: “The Vulture is a Patient Bird” - about the theft of the ring Borgia, “The Innocent Killer” - about the adventures of an American who lived illegally in Italy, “An Extra Ace in the Hole” - the story of the wife of an old millionaire: “The Vulture is a patient bird” (“The Vulture Is a Patient Bird”, 1969); “The Innocent killer" (“The Wary Transgressor”, 1952); “An extra ace in the hole” (“An Ace Up My Sleeve”, 971) (Helga Rolf - 1). Translation: N. Krasnobolodsky