But a Short Time to Live
1951 novel by James Hadley Chase
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| Author | James Hadley Chase |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Jarrolds |
Publication date | 1951 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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But a Short Time to Live is a 1951 crime thriller novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase.[1] It was originally published under the pen name of Raymond Marshall. In the United States it was known by the alternative title The Pick-up.
In 1968 it was adapted into a French film A Little Virtuous directed by Serge Korber and starring Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin and Robert Hossein.
References
- ^ Server p.61
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Infobase Publishing, 2014.
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Works by James Hadley Chase
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939)
- Get a Load of This (1942)
- Eve (1945)
- I'll Get You for This (1946)
- I'll Bury My Dead (1953)
- Safer Dead (1954)
- There's Always A Price Tag
- You've Got It Coming (1955)
- The Guilty Are Afraid (1957)
- The World in My Pocket (1959)
- A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961)
- 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)
- Consider Yourself Dead (1978)
- You Must Be Kidding (1979)
- You Can Say That Again (1980)
- No Business of Mine (1947)
- Trusted Like the Fox (1948)
- Mallory (1950)
- But a Short Time to Live (1951)
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