A Leak In The Safe

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…

1960

Coney Island in the desert

Miami Beach without an ocean

Nothing but sand and neaon

And money, money, everywhere

Big name entertainers rubbing elbows

With big name gangsters over the

Green-baize craps tables

Bare-breasted showgirls conning

Big spenders in the small hours

All-night marriage chapels

Divorcees hocking their jewels

For a final desperate fling

Little white balls bouncing around

The roulette wheels 24 hours a day

World without end…

VEGAS!