My Laugh Comes Last
My Laugh Comes Last is a 1977 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase.[1]
Plot summary
Larry Lucas is a small-time worker, who is one day approached by a millionaire, Farell Brannigan, to assist him and start a new bank in town, which should be the safest in the world. Thrilled by the offer, Larry jumps for it, starts minting money and enters high class circles, only to come across a series of problems on the way, involving deception, hypocrisy, treachery, murder, blackmail. The rest of the story is about how and whether Larry is able to deal with and survive it all.
References
- ^ Bloom, Clive. Bestsellers: popular fiction since 1900. Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.
External links
- My Laugh Comes Last at Goodreads.com
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Works by James Hadley Chase
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939)
- Get a Load of This (1942)
- Eve (1945)
- I'll Get You for This (1946)
- I'll Bury My Dead (1953)
- Safer Dead (1954)
- There's Always A Price Tag
- You've Got It Coming (1955)
- The Guilty Are Afraid (1957)
- The World in My Pocket (1959)
- A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961)
- I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962)
- The Soft Centre (1964)
- Cade (1966)
- The Whiff of Money (1969)
- Like a Hole in the Head (1970)
- Just a Matter of Time (1972)
- My Laugh Comes Last (1977)
- Consider Yourself Dead (1978)
- You Must Be Kidding (1979)
- You Can Say That Again (1980)
- No Business of Mine (1947)
- Trusted Like the Fox (1948)
- Mallory (1950)
- But a Short Time to Live (1951)
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