James Hadley Chase

The Way The Cookie Crumbles

Corgi edition reissued 1985

Ticky Edris, the mis-shapen dwarf, and Phil Algir, the handsome con-man, devise a cunning plan to rob the safest bank in the world — the impregnable Florida Safe Deposit Bank.

Ruthlessly Edris sets the plan in motion; a junkie call-girl, Murial Marsh is murdered — so is her schoolgirl daughter Norena. Her father is the Vice President of the bank…

When sexy Ira Marsh, Muriel’s sister, arrives at Paradise City, Florida’s crime-free, millionaires’ playground the whole plan begins to look as if it is going to work…