JAMES HADLEY CHASE

The Joker In The Pack

     After successfully foiling ex-lover, Archer's plan to blackmail her in freezing Switzerland (see An Ace Up My Sleeve), the beautiful but sexually starved Helga Rolfe arrives in sun soaked Nassau, to join her elderly billionaire husband.  Crippled, suspicious Herman, guessing how she played around since their marriage of convenience, had decided to put a tail on her - and was contemplating to write some very nasty terms concerning her in his will.

    Herman was right of course - Helga did have a fatal weakness for handsome, sexy men - men like Harry Jackson. But Harry was not quite the man she thought - he was a shamus and a blackmailer. Shocked, Helga turns away from him to discover Dick Jones, a beautiful colored boy, whom she decides to  make her houseboy and bed partner for a while.  But Jones is a plant of Jackson and also dabbles in voodoo...