Come easy - go easy

Published in 1960, this is one of many, many James Hadley Chase novels, but the first I have had the opportunity to read.

This was a highly enjoyable read. If this had been written recently and set in the late '50s I would have been able to explain it was described perfectly in era - the settings, descriptions, the moral judgements. Of course, when written, it was a contemporary novel, so the author had a head start.
The roll out of the story, the suspense and the drama were great. Towards the end things appear to get slow, but this draws the reader into the painfully slow progress that is made is solving the complex web the protagonist finds himself in.

The blurb provides enough story line - “When Chet Carson broke jail, he thought he found a safe hide-out in a lonely filling station. But instead he found himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife Lola, and a safe with a fortune inside, which Lola wanted.”

4 stars. I will be keeping an eye out for more by this author.