JAMES HADLEY CHASE

Make The Corpse Walk

     Money buys everything.. or at least that's what eccentric millionaire, Kester Wiedmann believes.  So when his brother, Cornelius dies, Kester figures out that all he has to do is to buy the services of a voodoo expert and bring Cornelius back to life. For that, he employs Rollo, a small time operator, who uses the Gilded Lily Club as a front. Rollo thinks that it would be the con trick of the century - that he would milk Wiedmann dry. But he was reckoning without the interference of Celie, his smoldering Creole mistress, and Butch, the club muscleman, who both decide that Wiedmann's fortune was worth a heck of a lot more than Rollo's flabby neck...