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4.0
How many James Hadley Chase crime thrillers have I read that use an exclusive club as a key plot device? Exclusive being either for the ultra wealthy or the elite criminal. At least seven or eight times in the books I've read so far. And how many of his novels make use of a beach cabin or oceanside bungalow? Ten or twelve at last count? He does it again, here. And it all plays into the mystery of the case just as if you're seeing it for the first time. Chase's American setting is mythic and abstract. It's a place of atmosphere and impressions. It rarely gets tiring in his work. Even, here, where you pretty much have sized up the killer and the mystery perhaps a quarter of the way through. It doesn't matter. Because it is how Chase puts it all together at the end that is so fascinating. That, and a pace to this novel that just builds and builds.
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