JAMES HADLEY CHASE

 Just Another Sucker

     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........