# Do me a Favour – Drop Dead

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- Book: [Do me a Favour – Drop Dead](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-hadley-chase/do-me-a-favour-drop-dead) ([Do me a Favour – Drop Dead.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-hadley-chase/do-me-a-favour-drop-dead.md))
- Authors: [James Hadley Chase](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-hadley-chase)
- Publisher: the_murder_room
- ISBN: 978-14-7190-392-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-12-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league. Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers ...