Eve

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.
"Eve" is the story a Hollywood writer whose reputation rests on the work of another, conveniently dead, brilliant writer and a beautiful woman with deep violence smoldering inside her. Eve is an enigma. She could be bold and shy, wanton and childlike and she could possess a man and destroy him. Clive is a pushover and from the moment he sees her he is possessed. Brought to brink of despair, as he faces professional ruin, degradation and death, Clive finds his way back to Carol the woman who can bring him love and happiness.