James Hadley Chase has given us An Ace Up my Sleeve, then The Joker in the Pack, and now I Hold the Four Aces. Each novel, complete in itself, follows the sexually frustrated life of Helga Rolfe, one of the richest of women, shrewd and ruthless, with a penchant for men. In I Hold the Four Aces Helga finds, at long last, the man she wants to marry, but, as we have come to expect from the ‘thriller maestro of the generation’, unexpected and dangerous complications arise. As the New Statesman has called him, this ‘master of the art of deception’ once again has written a tense, fast-moving story that will keep you up long past your bedtime.An Ace Up my Sleeve is now a major movie with Karen Black playing Helga and Omar Sharif playing Archer