It would be better if I stayed poor

For half a century of writing, the British author of detectives Rene Brabazon Reimond (1906–1985) published about ninety criminal novels and changed several creative pseudonyms. The most famous of them is James Hedley Chase. “I, like a bloodhound, take a trace and I feel what the reader wants. And what he will buy, ”the master explained the success of his novels, willingly revealing the gold -bearing secret: readers attract“ action and rhythm ”. In the 20th century, there was no place for unhurried old -fashioned stories in which an eccentric detective investigated the mysterious murder of an aristocrat in the decorations of a cozy country mansion, according to the laws of the New Age, the detective launches the revolver almost more often than deduction. The real collection includes novels in the Noar genre “Another Obrapil” (1961), based on which in 1998 the film “Palmetto” was shot, and “It would be better if I remained poor” (1962)