The Whole World in Your Pocket

English writer James Hadley Chase remains an unparalleled master of the detective genre to this day, and his works enjoy consistent success among readers worldwide. Throughout his long creative life, Chase wrote about one hundred novels, half of which have been adapted into films. “Everything my readers need is solid reading: this is what I strive to give them...” explained the author regarding his success.
The collection includes works by J.H. Chase written in the 1940s and 1950s: “The Magician,” full of adventure and sparkling humor, which is not what you would expect from the classic of “hard-boiled detective”; “The Careful Criminal,” in which Chase brilliantly took on the role of Balzac of the detective genre — an investigator of the human soul; and “The Whole World in Your Pocket” — one of the writer's most famous works, which served as the basis for the film “Mirage,” shot in 1983 at the Riga Film Studio.