Safer Dead

First edition (publ. Robert Hale)
Cover artist J. Pollack

Safer Dead is a 1954 crime-mystery novel by James Hadley Chase.^[1] The novel has Chet Sladen, a journalist, investigating the murder of Fay Benson, a night-club dancer.

Plot summary

Fay Benson, a night-club dancer had been missing for 14 months but the police still didn't know if she was alive or dead. So when Chet Sladen, a journalist, began his own investigation, he didn't expect to find very much. Clues lead him to Tampa City which had the most inefficient, uncooperative police force in the country. The city was crawling with rackets, and the Commissioner was hand in glove with all of them. Sladen finds Fay Benson's body at the bottom of Lake Baldock, inside a barrel of cement. He follows clues which leads to numerous murders related to the Benson case but ultimately much to the detest of the Commissioner, Sladen solves the mystery.

References

↑ Bloom, Clive. Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900. Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Works by James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) Get a Load of This (1942) Eve (1945) I'll Get You for This (1946) La Chair de l'orchidée (1948) Safer Dead (1954) There's Always A Price Tag You've Got It Coming (1955) The Guilty Are Afraid (1957) I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962) The Soft Centre (1964) Cade (1966) The Whiff of Money (1969) Like a Hole in the Head (1970) Just a Matter of Time (1972) My Laugh Comes Last (1977) You Must Be Kidding (1979) You Can Say That Again (1980)

Raymond Marshall	No Business of Mine (1947) Trusted Like the Fox (1948) Mallory (1950)

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