Over half a century of writing, the British detective author Rene Brabazon Raymond (1906–1985) published about ninety crime novels and changed several creative pseudonyms. The most famous of them is James Hadley Chase. “I, like a bloodhound, follow the trail and smell what the reader wants. And what will he buy” — this is how the master explained the success of his novels, willingly revealing the gold-bearing secret: readers are attracted by “action and rhythm.” This book includes a novel from the series about Helga Rolf, created in the 1970s. Helga Rolf is the wife of a millionaire and is pretty. Her life seems to be a dream come true. But alas, this is not so. She has one weakness - men. Smart, beautiful, sexy... But she married Herman Rolf, an elderly disabled man, and promised him fidelity. Big money and little weaknesses are a dangerous combination...