My Laugh Comes Last - Misplaced Pages

My Laugh Comes Last is a 1977 thriller novel by British writer James Hadley Chase.

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

v t e 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) 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)
Raymond Marshall	No Business of Mine (1947) Trusted Like the Fox (1948) Mallory (1950) But a Short Time to Live (1951)

Works by James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase

Raymond Marshall

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