Do Me a Favor - Die!

In half a century of writing, British detective author René Brabazon Raymond (1906–1985) published around ninety crime novels and changed several artistic pseudonyms. The most famous of them is James Hadley Chase. “I, like a bloodhound, pick up the trail... and sense what the reader wants. And what he will buy” — this is how the master explained the success of his novels, readily revealing the gold-bearing secret: readers are attracted by “action and rhythm.” The collection includes the novels “That’s What Men Do” (1953), “Lotus for Miss Kwon” (1961), and “Do Me a Favor - Die!” (1976). Harry Collins, the owner of a losing auto repair shop, finds himself drawn into an adventure that promised to solve all his financial problems, but turned into a catastrophe that destroyed the usual course of his life… American Steve Jeff works in Saigon and is already starting to feel genuinely bored with life in the “Vietnamese hole” when he unexpectedly discovers a stash of diamonds worth two million dollars and has no intention of giving up his find... Former financier Keith Devery — a man with a criminal record and big ambitions — finds himself in a small hospitable town, where he unexpectedly receives the chance to seize a million dollars...