A Coffin from Hong Kong
by James Hadley Chase
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It was the easiest £3,000 Nelson Ryan had ever made - but suddenly he realised he was being played for a sucker. A telephone call, seemingly innocent enough, led him to the murder of a Chinese call-girl who talked too much. It also pitched him straight into the teeming, sordid night life of colourful Hong Kong. From now on, Ryan would stick at nothing to get the killer who'd crossed him up.Tags
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Salapärane Hongkong, kaunid naised, narkootikumid, mõrvad...
Hoogne ja haarav raamat - just see, mida vajate puhkuseks!
Hoogne ja haarav raamat - just see, mida vajate puhkuseks!
Can it be that any self-respecting person would confess ignorance of Pew, the blind beggar who plays his sinister part in Treasure Island? They knew all about him at any rate in the little village adapted from its reality (will you recognize it?) for the purpose of Mr. Ryland's diverting and original thriller. They held a fete in this village, and most of the people concerned in it were dressed as characters from R.L. Stevenson's story. It was a jolly fete and the whole show would have been voted an outstanding success had not two murders been discovered in its midst. It is a perplexing, thrilling story which Mr. Ryland unfolds here, and when Scotland Yard descended upon that quiet West Midland village they asked the question that was show more perplexing many people: Who was the individual who impersonated Pew so successfully at that fete? show less
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- Ruumisarkku Hongkongista
- Original title
- A Coffin from Hong Kong
- Original publication date
- 1962
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