{"product_id":"eton-books-e116-the-marijuana-mob-james-hadley-chase","title":"Eton Books E116 The Marijuana Mob - James Hadley Chase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe basics:\u003c\/strong\u003e It's by the British thriller writer James Hadley Chase and is a retitled edition of his novel \u003cem\u003eFigure It Out For Yourself\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Eton Books as E116 in 1952, with cover art by Victor Olson. The lurid \"Marijuana Mob\" title was a marketing move typical of American reprint houses of the era. The back cover sold it as a thrilling tale of kidnapping, murder, drug dealing and politics.  its in Very Good Condition it displays well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe story:\u003c\/strong\u003e It's a Vic Malloy private-eye novel. Lee Dedrick, husband of the fourth-richest woman in the world, vanishes and is believed kidnapped, pulling Malloy of Universal Services into a tangle of murder, glamorous women and violence. A $500,000 ransom is paid but Dedrick never comes back; a gambler named Nick Perelli is framed and arrested, and Malloy, with his associates Paula Bensinger and Jack Kerman, sets out to clear him and find the real kidnappers. Despite the title, the drug angle is only one thread in a fairly standard hardboiled kidnapping plot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eton Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54217229205801,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0969\/9052\/7785\/files\/20260922_124235.jpg?v=1790099864","url":"https:\/\/captainaero.com\/products\/eton-books-e116-the-marijuana-mob-james-hadley-chase","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}