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Originally published
  
1969

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Author
  
James Hadley Chase

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Genres
  
Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Similar
  
Works by James Hadley Chase, Thriller books

The Whiff of Money is a 1969 thriller by James Hadley Chase. The book features Mark Girland, one of his most popular characters.

Summary

This book follows Mark Girland's next adventure after Have This One on Me. John Dorey asks Mark Girland to fetch a blue movie tape from Paris without telling him who the girl in the tape is. Girland, while working out his plan finds out, to his utter surprise, that the girl features in the tape is the daughter of Sherman, a man who is running for the Presidential election in the United States. His daughter, Gilly threatens to expose the tapes to ruin her father's chances of becoming the President of the United States. Her act is an instance of retaliation because her father and mother had never taken care of her in her childhood and she had had to do without the parental love and affection.

The book follows Girland as he finds his way through the underground pornographic industry of Paris to rescue the girl and the tape for $20,000. He finds the girl but there is a business mogul who has invested a lot of money on Sherman's presidential campaign for not wholly honest reasons. He plans to kill the girl and Girland in his mansion.

Girland again meets Malik, who is a secret agent of the Soviets and who is also after the tape. The book thrillingly follows Girland as he tries to rescue Gilly and the tape which could prove dangerous to a lot of people.

References

The Whiff of Money Wikipedia