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 fourteenth volume of the Collected Works includes the novel “Dangerous Games” - the story of the life and crimes of a cruel and cold-blooded murderers and the novel "Eve", which tells the story of the love of a writer and a prostitute.