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A man is murdered outside a gambling club in London's West End after a journalist who had dallied to take a last drink has tried to stop a frightened girl from making a 'phone call. The journalist is kidnapped by a naked female croupier who is handling a gun instead of a roulette wheel. He comes to on a Sussex farm, where he makes a discovery that pitches him headlong into a sequence of violence and intrigue concerning a gambling racket and the faceless men who run it. Cash My Chips, Croupier was first published in 1969.
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Whenever Wilma Haven decided to be wayward, she insisted that she was seen to be wayward. So perhaps she was merely being consistent when she hired a hearse before committing suicide, then proceeded to take her time over the act in a very public place. However, Wilma died not from her own act, but by the murderous intent of a unsuspected killer, and Superintendent Frank Drury of Scotland Yard becomes embroiled in his most challenging case ever. Hire Me a Hearse was first published in 1968.
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A drugged girl, a crook with a secret, a doctor with a dubious past, and murder during a shooting affray become part of a developing mystery in which a concealed denouement is unravelled only when the last danger threatens.