There's Always a Price Tag

[2] Glyn Nash, a part-time multi-talented freelance worker, rescues Hollywood director Erle Dester from being run over in a drunken state.

Unfortunately things take a different turn when one day Dester calls both of them to his room and says that he is going to kill himself, and if it can be proved as murder, then Helen will get his money after his death, but not if suicide.

They hide the body in the freezer, and decide to cover up Dester's disappearance until they can think of a suitable way to make it appear as though he was murdered.

Finally Glyn comes up with the idea of making it appear as though Dester was very ill and had decided to go to the sanatorium for treatment, and on the way he and his wife were kidnapped for ransom.

They drive to a remote area, where Glyn ties Helen up and informs the police that she is missing, the plan here being that soon the news of a kidnap would spread.

Soon more people get involved in the case, including the police chief, Maddux and Detective Steve Harmas (who has also appeared in other books of James Hadley Chase).