Charles Williams - The Wrong Venus (pdf)

The Wrong Venus by Charles Williams -- pdf

Charles Williams was an American writer of hardboiled crime fiction. He is regarded by critics as one of the finest suspense novelists of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1951 debut, the pulp paperback novel Hill Girl, sold over a million copies. A dozen of his books have been adapted for the screen, most popularly Dead Calm.
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The Wrong Venus is Charles Williams third and last comic novel. Lawrence Colby is recruited by Martine Randall to finish ghost-writing a trashy, romance novel after the original ghost-writer disappears. It turns out that the original ghost writer was kidnapped (the kidnappers mistaking her for the real author), and Lawrence and Martine have to rescue her too. They also have to convince the real author, who doesn't even know that a novel is being ghost-written in her name, to allow its publication.