But a Short Time to Live is a 1951 crime thriller novel by the British writer James Hadley Chase.

[1] It was originally published under the pen name of Raymond Marshall.

In 1968 it was adapted into a French film A Little Virtuous directed by Serge Korber and starring Dany Carrel, Jacques Perrin and Robert Hossein.

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