Just Another Sucker by James Hadley Chase

A man will do almost anything when a rich and highly attractive woman offers him fifty thousand dollars just to make a telephone call. But when that telephone call is part of a fake kidnap plan to extract five hundred thousand dollars from one of the richest men in the world, only a sucker would gamble on the deal paying off in his favor.

Harry Barber was a sucker. After spending three and a half years in jail wrongly accused of manslaughter, Harry found his reputation had made it impossible to get work as a reporter. So with no job and no money he is the perfect target of a brilliant plan to make him the obvious suspect when a rich and beautiful young girl is savagely murdered.............

Printing History

Written by René Lodge Brabazon Raymond

copyright 1960
 

Robert Hale Ltd 

1961
 

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Corgi Books

ISBN 552 09466

1974