Лучше бы я остался бедным

In half a century of writing, the British author of detective stories René Brabazon Raymond (1906-1985) published about ninety crime novels and changed several pseudonyms. The most famous of them is James Hadley Chase.
"I, like a bloodhound, take the trail and feel what the reader wants. And what he will buy," - this is how the master explained the success of his novels, willingly revealing the golden secret: readers are attracted by "action and rhythm". In the 20th century, there was no place left for leisurely old-fashioned stories in which an eccentric detective investigates the mysterious murder of an aristocrat in the scenery of a cozy country mansion; according to the laws of modern times, the detective uses a revolver almost more often than deduction.
This collection includes novels from the 1950s and 1960s, demonstrating different facets of the writer's work: "Mallory" and "Spring in Paris" - stories about the adventures of Martin Corridon in the genre of "cool Detective" as well as the non-serial noir novels "Another Dupe", which was based on the film "Palmetto" in 1998, and "I'd rather stay poor".