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I wish I had stayed poor.

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Over half a century of writing, British detective author René Brabazon Raymond (1906–1985) published nearly ninety crime novels and used several pen names. The most celebrated of these is James Hadley Chase.

"I'm like a bloodhound, following a scent and sensing what the reader wants. And what he'll buy"—that's how the master explained the success of his novels, readily revealing his golden secret: readers are drawn to "action and rhythm."
"I wish I'd stayed poor"—a phrase Dave Calvin, the protagonist of J.H. Chase's classic noir novel (1962), will utter more than once. Nature has blessed Dave with an attractive appearance, an athletic build, and great ambition. But he's already thirty-eight, and financial difficulties and the realization that he needs to do something to escape the morass of a joyless existence have become his constant companions. For the sake of future success, Dave Calvin is willing to take risks...
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