JAMES HADLEY CHASE

The Doll's Bad News / Twelve Chinks and a Woman /  Twelve Chinamen and a Woman

                                 
     A curvaceous, beautiful girl walks into the decrepit office of Dave Fenner, private eye (see  No Orchids For Miss Blandish), strips, and offers him a substantial retainer to help her out of the trouble she is in. But there is a lot to it than it meets the eye. Soon enough,  he has two blood thirsty Cubans on his tail, which makes him realise that the stakes are much higher than he had first thought. Gun running, slavery, smuggling of Chinese refugees.... all are involved, which makes Fenner approach rival gangsters, Carlos and then, Noolen in Key West, Florida. But things get violent as the rivals go for each other's throats and Fenner gets caught in the middle....