You Never Know With Women by James Hadley Chase (Epub)

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Veda Rux, a beautiful blonde, known professionally as a stripper, steals a priceless Cellini dagger from the safe in millionaire Lindsay Brett’s home. Her agent, Cornelius Gorman, approaches Floyd Jackson, a private investigator and first-rate blackmailer, and asks him to return the dagger before the theft is discovered.

Jackson should have known there was something wrong with the whole situation, but, blinded by the beauty of Veda and more money than he had ever seen, he agreed to the proposition.

From the moment he fell in love with Veda, his doom was sealed—he was caught up in a relentless intrigue that made him a cat’s-paw for murder.

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⭐ “You Never Know With Women” is a pulpy 1949 thriller. In it, Chase presents the reader with a number of themes popular in pulp literature, including the sucker who can’t say no to a beautiful woman, the endless greed propelling the sucker deeper into the quagmire, a valuable mysterious artifact that a number of persons are fighting over, an innocent man on the run with the entire world on look out for him, being blamed for murders he didn’t commit, and the romantic couple brought together by desperate circumstances, but turned against each other with distrust and suspicion.The story begins with a detective down on his luck, his license suspended, the police out to get him for whatever will stick. Offered a chance to make some money as a professional thief by the most unusual grouping of individuals imaginable, he gets involved in a caper that barely makes any sense and results in him being on the run with bodies strewn just about everywhere.The narrator talks about an “alarm bell ringing in [his] mind” telling him that he is being played for a sucker. He is sure that the whole “lousy tale” of the artifact, the stripper who walks in her sleep, and the rest of it “was a tissue of lies a half-wit paralytic could have seen through.” He knows he should have told the bunch to go jump in lake and that doing so would save him a lot of grief, but greed gets the better of him and then he sees Veda Rux and, as soon as he sees her, he knows there is going to be trouble. He should have known that the way this frail made him feel he was only going to have half his mind on the job and, when a guy gets that way, “he’s leaving himself wide open for a sucker punch.” But there was nothing he could do because it was like getting hold of a live wire and not being able to let go.There are some great one-liners in this book, such as the idea that: “women are funny animals. You never know where you are with them – they don’t often know where they are with themselves.” How about: “Even a punk with a paralyzed brain hates to be forgotten.”This is a terrific thriller, filled with twists and turns at every step, and, well worth your time.

⭐ My mom hard told me about this author, telling me that it was her favorite author when she was about my age so I bought this book even though the title looked a little boring to me and I am not much of a reader, but this book is really interesting anf absolutely hard to put down !! I love it and would recommended it to a friend 🙂

⭐ Good book, I wish there were more authors from this era and genre to pick from. If you love a good gangster story, this is it.

⭐ One of James Hadley early books. It is interesting but quite amateurish just like any Mills & Boon books.

⭐ Pretty interesting plot. And unexpected finish! Some moments are a little boring. But the desire to know what will happen next makes you read more and more…

⭐ “You Never Know With Women” is a pulpy 1949 thriller. In it, Chase presents the reader with a number of themes popular in pulp literature, including the sucker who can’t say no to a beautiful woman, the endless greed propelling the sucker deeper into the quagmire, a valuable mysterious artifact that a number of persons are fighting over, an innocent man on the run with the entire world on look out for him, being blamed for murders he didn’t commit, and the romantic couple brought together by desperate circumstances, but turned against each other with distrust and suspicion.The story begins with a detective down on his luck, his license suspended, the police out to get him for whatever will stick. Offered a chance to make some money as a professional thief by the most unusual grouping of individuals imaginable, he gets involved in a caper that barely makes any sense and results in him being on the run with bodies strewn just about everywhere.The narrator talks about an “alarm bell ringing in [his] mind” telling him that he is being played for a sucker. He is sure that the whole “lousy tale” of the artifact, the stripper who walks in her sleep, and the rest of it “was a tissue of lies a half-wit paralytic could have seen through.” He knows he should have told the bunch to go jump in lake and that doing so would save him a lot of grief, but greed gets the better of him and then he sees Veda Rux and, as soon as he sees her, he knows there is going to be trouble. He should have known that the way this frail made him feel he was only going to have half his mind on the job and, when a guy gets that way, “he’s leaving himself wide open for a sucker punch.” But there was nothing he could do because it was like getting hold of a live wire and not being able to let go.There are some great one-liners in this book, such as the idea that: “women are funny animals. You never know where you are with them – they don’t often know where they are with themselves.” How about: “Even a punk with a paralyzed brain hates to be forgotten.”This is a terrific thriller, filled with twists and turns at every step, and, well worth your time.

⭐ Enjoy reading this book. I think this is best book. When i was start reading, i was very crazy what is going on. Highly recommended.

⭐ You have to feel for Floyd Jackson. It might not be much of a respectable lifestyle he had managed, but I swear he didn’t deserve any of the treatment he received from the twin corrupt officers who handled his case. But this is JHC. Full of drama, twist, suspense and intrigue. Another of his finest.

⭐ This is a book by James Hadley Chase, though I do not know why it is published by Mills & Boon. Only £2.39 and well worth a lot more. Very well written with lots of unexpected twists and turns. I have read a lot of James Hadley Chase’s books and would recommend this as an example of his writing. If you like this, you are lucky as you can enjoy many hours of happy reading of his other books.

⭐ Enjoyable. In Chase’s usual style. Reference terms used for women are misogynistic anachronisms, though, and made me cringe a bit.

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