James Hadley Chase

Eve / More Deadly Than the Male James Hadley Chase

EVE



Clive Thurston is living a lie. Having claimed a dying playwright's masterwork as his own, he is hailed as a brilliant, new author. Thurston is now living the good life in Hollywood. He has a house in the country, a manservant, a beautiful fiancÉe....then one night he meets Eve. Eve isn't beautiful at all, but she's got a way about her. Thurston is captivated, and in no time, he becomes obsessed. But as everybody knows, Eve is a prostitute, and his reputation around town begins to suffer. His fiancÉe has been patient, but she can take no more. Thurston is drinking too much, and making bad decisions.

But what he can't figure is why Eve keeps rejecting him. If he can only make Eve love him, maybe his own redemption is at hand...



MORE DEADLY THAN THE MALE



"George knew the exact moment when he fell in love with Cora Brant. At one moment Cora was just someone with whom he hoped to alleviate an hour of lonely boredom; at the next she was someone he was physically and mentally aware of in a most overpowering way. He had bought drinks, and he had been startled that she tackled a pint of beer. And when he looked more closely at her, he realized she was not immaculate in the accepted sense of the word. But George was not critical. Any woman was a novelty to him, and a girl like Cora Brant was far more than a novelty--she was an exciting experience."

George has been living in a gangster fantasy in which he is always the hero. Now he meets that world head on. George's troubles have only just begun...