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 tenth volume of the Collected Works includes the novels: “You're Dead Without Money” - about the theft of priceless stamps , “Rather Dead Than Alive” is the story of a young loser and one of the early works of the writer “This is of no use to him: “You're Dead Without Money” (“You're Dead Without Money”, 1972) (Paradise City);“ More Deadly than the Male, 1947); “He Won’t Need It Now,” 1941). Translation: N. Krasnobolodsky

!The first novel (You're Dead Without Money) is missing the last two (seventh and eighth) chapters. For the full version, see s/s 32 - volume 12.