Download or read book A Lotus for Miss Quon written by James Hadley Chase and published by . This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Jaffe, an American business man working in Saigon, discovers two million dollars worth of diamonds hidden in a wall of his rented villa. He learns that these diamonds belong to the Vietnam state, but he is determined to keep them for himself. The problem of how he is to smuggle the diamonds out of Vietnam and into Hong Kong forms the theme of this tale of suspense.
Download or read book A Lotus for Miss Quon written by James Chase and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American businessman, Steve Jaffe, is on an assignment in the turbulent and exotic city of Saigon. He rents a villa previously owned by Mai Chang, mistress of former dictator, General Nguyen Van Tho. While putting up a picture poster, Jaffe knocks down a big hole in the wall and comes across a large cache of diamonds, apparently the late General's getaway stake. Haum, Jaffe's houseboy, is convinced that the diamonds belong to the State. But Steve reckons that finding's keeping and silences Haum, whose neck proves to be rather brittle. From then onwards, Jaffe is on the run, with local warlords and the police after him. In desperation, Jaffe turns to Nhan Lee Quon for assistance, which she provides with her life, not because she wanted part of the loot but because she genuinely loved Jaffe.......
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Download or read book The Whiff of Money written by James Hadley Chase and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Agent Mark Kirkland has been given the task of locating and retrieving three pornographic films. His mission must remain top secret as the films, rather embarrassingly, feature the daughter of the future president of the United States. His quest leads him to the depths of Bavaria where he finds Soviet agent, Malik, and sidekick Lu Silk also rather interested in the whereabouts of the films. Who will find them first? And once found, who's to say they won't immediately disappear again?
Download or read book The Vulture is a Patient Bird written by James Hadley Chase and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But when Kahlenberg finds out they are coming, the gang's expedition turns into a strictly one-way safari - to slaughter ... 'Insanely readable' Observer
Download or read book Ghouls Gimmicks and Gold written by Kevin Heffernan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole People—they stalked and oozed into audiences’ minds during the era that followed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) and Chucky (Child’s Play). Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960s—and the movies they crawled and staggered through—reflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan shows how the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies changed as the studio era gave way to the conglomeration of New Hollywood. Heffernan argues that major cultural and economic shifts in the production and reception of horror films began at the time of the 3-d film cycle of 1953–54 and ended with the 1968 adoption of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings system and the subsequent development of the adult horror movie—epitomized by Rosemary’s Baby. He describes how this period presented a number of daunting challenges for movie exhibitors: the high costs of technological upgrade, competition with television, declining movie attendance, and a diminishing number of annual releases from the major movie studios. He explains that the production and distribution branches of the movie industry responded to these trends by cultivating a youth audience, co-producing features with the film industries of Europe and Asia, selling films to television, and intensifying representations of sex and violence. Shining through Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold is the delight of the true horror movie buff, the fan thrilled to find The Brain that Wouldn’t Die on television at 3 am.
Download or read book Framer Framed written by Trinh T. Minh-ha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films: Reassemblage, Naked Spaces--Living isRound, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.
Download or read book Becky Chan written by Jared Mitchell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becky Chan’s life gets off to a rocky start. She is born into a poor family, with a ne’er-do-well father. But by 1967, she is the reigning queen of the Hong Kong film industry, and her life is frequently confused by her public with the roles that she plays, including the Goddess of Mercy. In the city, Communist factions are setting bombs and kidnapping people. In mainland China, itself in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, rival factions of the Communist Party are terrorizing the nation. In the midst of this turmoil, Becky Chan disappears. Told from the point of view of an aging Canadian expatriate residing in the colony, Becky Chan is an absorbing and intriguing story that is entirely set in the Hong Kong film world. Woven into Becky’s life story, itself the stuff of a Mandarin movie, are the plots of several of her 190 films.
Download or read book Believed Violent written by James Hadley Chase and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russians will pay $4,000,000 for the top secret formula to a revolutionary new metal ... and the CIA will do anything to stop them. American inventor Dr Paul Forrester is the man that both sides want. He alone can decipher the vital code but, for two years, Forrester has been in a mental asylum - ever since that bloody day when he walked in on his beautiful wife and her lover. So it's Nona Jacey, Forrester's former lab assistant, who becomes a helpless pawn in the power struggle to possess the scientist. Because she is the only person that holds the key to unlocking Forrester's mind ...
Download or read book Mission to Siena written by James Hadley Chase and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years the worldwide operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner who calls himself the Tortoise have baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But the Tortoise makes a mistake when he interferes with wealthy American playboy Don Micklem, who has friends in high places, and soon tracks him to his lair ... 'The thriller maestro of the generation' Manchester Evening News
Download or read book Jewel in the Lotus written by Sunyata Saraswati and published by Ipsalu Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secrets are revealed in this complete and systematic course in the science of Tantric Kriya yoga that shows readers how to be more aware of the inner working of the boy and mind. (World Religions)
Download or read book Miss Shumway Waves a Wand written by James Hadley Chase and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goldfish Have No Hiding Place written by James Hadley Chase and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-12-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Manson's magazine dealt in corruption: he attacked the rich, the powerful and the famous - and he made enemies. In a job like that, you couldn't afford to have dirty secrets of your own. With the whole town itching for you to make a slip, it was like living in a goldfish bowl. But Steve had lived clean - until his beautiful, extravagant wife was caught shoplifting, and suddenly he was up to his neck in the dirtiest secrets of all - blackmail and murder.
Download or read book Writers Directory written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 1555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loafing Along Death Valley Trails written by William Caruthers and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1926, on the advice of his doctor, former newspaperman William Caruthers, whose writings appeared in most Western magazines during a career spanning more than 25 years, retired to an orange grove near Ontario, California. Once there, he would go on to spend much of his time during the next 25 years in the Death Valley region, witnessing the transition of Death Valley from a prospector’s hunting ground to a mecca for winter tourists. This book, which was first published in 1951, is William Caruthers’ personal narrative of the old days in Death Valley—”of people and places in Panamint Valley, the Amargosa Desert and the big sink at the bottom of America.” A wonderful read.
Download or read book Whitaker s Cumulative Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mallory written by James Hadley Chase and published by Corgi Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
