The Career of a Killer

Over half a century of writing, British detective author R. B. Raymond (1906–1985) published around ninety crime novels and changed several creative pseudonyms. The most renowned of them is James Hadley Chase.

“I, like a bloodhound, pick up a trail and sense what the reader wants. And what they will 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 collection includes novels representing three decades of J. H. Chase's writing success. “The Career of a Killer” (1939) is the second of the works published by the author: the arrival of a new person in a small town is always an event, especially if the newcomer is determined to change the balance of power... An attempt to rectify the consequences of one crime with another rarely leads to success, as the main character of the novel “The Channelling Dagger” (1949) is about to discover, following many others... Possessing a whole box of diamonds is a guarantee of a carefree future... If it weren't for one clarification that shatters the hero's rainbow plans in the novel “He Will Get His” (1955): not if there is more than one claimant to the valuable cargo...