JAMES HADLEY CHASE

An Ace Up My Sleeve

     Glamorous Helga had married Herman Rolfe, the billionaire, on the suggestion of her ex-lover, Jack Archer, who, himself, was financial advisor to Rolfe. After siphoning off Rolfe's money, Archer expects Helga to look the other way round, for old times sake, which Helga refuses to do. Helga has  her own troubles and sexual frustrations and picks up youthful Larry in Bonn, thinking that away from Rolfe's prying eyes, she could enjoy a few days of lust with this boy, at her villa in Switzerland. Little did she know that Larry was actually a plant of Archer to blackmail her.  It turns out that Larry could also be a homicidal killer on the loose, which Helga discovers after she takes him to her villa and the two of them are all alone, amongst the snow clad wilderness.......