A man facing penury will do almost anything when
a rich and attractive woman offers him fifty thousand dollars, just to make a
telephone call. But when the telephone call is part of a fake kidnap plan to
extract five hundred thousand dollars from one of the richest men in the world,
Felix Malroux, only a sucker would gamble on the deal paying off in his favour.
And Harry Barber was just the sucker.
After spending three and a half years in jail, wrongly
accused of manslaughter, Harry found his reputation had made it impossible to
get work as a reporter. His attitude towards life had changed. So with no job,
no money and no prospects, he is the perfect target of a brilliant plan to
make him the obvious suspect, when a rich and beautiful girl, Odette Malroux, is
savagely murdered. But the person behind the whole scam was actually Rhea
Malroux, stepmother of Odette........
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