Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief

James Hadley Chase is probably the best know synonym of René Lodge Brabazon Raymond, an English writer also known by other pen names, including James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond, and Ambrose Grant. He is one of the best known thriller writers of all time. He was influenced by American crime writes and writers of hardboiled pulp fiction, but he rarely visited the United States and the books are based on knowledge acquired by reading and using reference materials. He has written some 90 books, almost half of which have been made into movies.
Once banned in the UK, "Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief" tells the story, in Chase’s tough and plain writing style, of hundreds of women who disappeared from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and were seen no more by those who knew and loved them.
And it is the story of Raven, the leader of the White Slave Ring in East St. Louis, who was responsible for the loathsome, corrupt traffic of women for the service of men.