JAMES HADLEY CHASE

                A Coffin From Hong Kong

      Nelson Ryan is a private investigator with a conscience. He receives a phony telephonic call from a mysterious caller, asking him to watch over his wife at a certain time and place. Since the retainer also arrives almost immediately, Ryan is forced to spend his night, watching a deserted house, with no occupants. Was it a ploy to get him away from his office? Sure it was, because as soon as he reaches his office next morning, he discovers a dead Chinese girl, obviously murdered, propped up in the visitor's chair...  With these developments, Ryan is pitched right into the teeming and sordid nightlife of Hong Kong, to solve the mystery of a coffin, which arrives at the US, from Hong Kong....