[--Get a load of this! The hardboiled world of James Hadley Chase, the thriller maestro, is recaptured in this new edition of tough and gritty tales.
  An early morning stroll in the park, or a lonely cross-country drive to Florida; evading arrest in war-torn Cuba, or sipping bourbon in the Bronx—it makes no odds, serious trouble lies just around the corner.... The sleazy jungle of lamp-lit streets, faded hotel lobbies and soulless freeways is the setting for a menagerie of typically brash Chase characters: all-metal blondes that weaken your resistance, merciless thugs in uniform and third-rate double-crossers.
  Fast-paced and crackling with cynical wit, this classic anthology shows why Chase is the unchallenged British champion of the tough American tradition.
  Publisher's Note: This remarkable collection of short stories was first published in 1942 and is now re-issued for the first time. It is a tribute to the vigour and storytelling ability of James Hadley Chase that after so many years these tales still shock and thrill the reader.]

-- "After two more novels (The Dead Stay Dumb and Twelve Chinks and a Woman), Jarrolds published Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941) and advertised his next book as Get a Load of This, a collection of fourteen stories with some tough episodes in a volume due for publication in the autumn of 1941. No tangible proof has been found that this book ever appeared, though some confusion was aroused in collecting circles a few years ago when an enthusiast claimed to have seen a copy. There is a school of thought that the book was withdrawn due to an action by the authorities against both publisher and author. It is quite possible, therefore, that some copies were printed and perhaps found their way into circulation before most were withdrawn from sale and distribution. It is not listed in either the British Library Catalogue or the English Catalogue of Printed Books." [from "COLLECTING JAMES HADLEY CHASE, HIS RACY AND VIOLENT THRILLERS ARE ACQUIRING CULT STATUS", write W.O.G. LOFTS & D.J. ADLEY, published: "BOOK AND MAGAZINE COLLECTOR" n° 85, APRIL 1991]

-- Advertisement from "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" (Jarrolds, 1941):
"Look out for the fifth James Hadley Chase tough book,
GET A LOAD OF THIS
A Collection of Stories and Tough Episodes
James Hadley Chase, now serving in the Royal Air Force, sends us the following letter:

Cherry Kearton, Esq., Director,
Messrs. Jarrolds Publishers London, Ltd., London, S.W.7.

My dear Cherry,

Some time ago you warned me against writing short stories. You stressed that the public didn't like them, and that I would be heading for a big flop if I persisted. Your views have always proved sound, so I've laid off until now. My present activities don't permit me to tackle a full-length novel, but as I have a number of situations up my sleeve I have been tempted to turn them into shorts. Have a little flutter on the book. Personally, I think it'll go. Not because it is better written than those which have flopped, but because the stories have got enough dynamite in them to make the average guy forget the blackout and the blitz—which, after all, is what we all want to do at this moment.

Anyway, here's the manuscript, and when you're not too busy—Get a load of this!

Yours,
JAMES HADLEY CHASE,

R.A.F. Station, Fighter Command, Somewhere in England.

We have read these stories and we reserve our opinion, but if you want to read some of the toughest stories ever written—do as we did — GET A LOAD OF THIS
To be published early autumn 1941."

[aka: ? (in German) (Frankfurt, ~1956) (as Raymond Marshall)

[aka: Death Is A Silent Word (LA, ~1957)]

 *Калверт* [main character: "Culvert"]

[aka: In The Labyrinth of Death (in English) (in Europe, 1955) (as Raymond Marshall); 
also: Mort en Cuir (in French) (as J.H.Chase)]

[aka: In Mare's Death (NY, "Gollander books", 1967)]

 *Берт Мейн* [main character: "Bert Main"] (+ Mark Girland, cameo)  
(место действия - Париж в 1946 г.)

aka: ? (in French) (Marseille, 1956) (as Raymond Marshall)

[aka: The Murder's Requiem (NY, ~1958) (as J.H.Chase)]

 *Ник Бакстер* [main character: "Nick Baxter"]