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THE THINGS MEN DO JAMES HADLEY CHASE CHAPTER ELEVEN Ann got back soon after eleven o’clock the following morning. She came briskly down the garage to where I was working with Tim, putting on a new cylinder gasket. “I’ll be up in about ten minutes,” I said, waving my oily hands at her to show … Read more
BY JAMES HADLEY CHASE CHAPTER FIVE As I walked from Gloria’s flat to Charing Cross Station to collect my suit-case, I worked out a plan of campaign. That good night kss, plus the whisky, had hopped me up as if I had swallowed a handful of Benzedrine tablets. I was chock full of confidence that … Read more
THE THINGS MEN DO JAMES HADLEY CHASE CHAPTER ONE The truck’s headlights picked her out of the darkness the way a spotlight pinpoints a solo act on the stage. She stood beside a 1939 Buick Roadmaster that hadn’t been washed in months nor polished in years. She had on a grey flannel skirt and a … Read more