My Laugh Comes Last

My Laugh Comes Last is a 1977 thriller novel written by James Hadley Chase.^[1]

My laugh comes last book cover

Synopsis

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

Works by James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) Get a Load of This (1942) Eve (1945) I'll Get You for This (1946) La Chair de l'orchidée (1948) Safer Dead (1954) There's Always A Price Tag You've Got It Coming (1955) The Guilty Are Afraid (1957) 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) You Must Be Kidding (1979) You Can Say That Again (1980)

Raymond Marshall	No Business of Mine (1947) Trusted Like the Fox (1948) Mallory (1950)

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