The Soft Centre

The Soft Centre

infobox Book |
name = The Soft Centre


image_caption = 1964 Corgi Paperback Edition
author = James Hadley Chase
language = English
genre = Crime novel
publisher = Corgi Books
pages = 180 pp

"The Soft Centre" is a work of detective fiction by James Hadley Chase and first published in Great Britain by Robert Hale Ltd. in 1964. This novel in set in Chase's fictional city "Paradise City" and was the first novel to introduce Detective Tom Lepski.

=Novel Summary=Val Burnett's husband, Chris, has had a fatal head injury and has now been brought to the Spanish Bay Hotel, Paradise City, to lie in the sun-and-sands and recuperate. He is almost a zombie by now, although there is hope of recovery. One day he vanishes from the Spanish Bay Hotel, only to be found the next day, roaming around in a disheveled state on the highway. The same day, a hard-faced prostitute, Joan Parnell, is found horrifically ripped apart in a nearby motel room. So far no connection. But a cigarette lighter presented to Chris by Val, is found in the scene of the crime. And blackmailers, gangsters, corrupt private eyes, homosexual criminals and other assorted crooks have a field day.....


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