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I found it

junnyjake:



lol. You really want to refresh your memory Uh? No p

Pius was a professional diver, so a certain Mr femi wanted to use him for a project, he played Pius, scammed him and Pius had no choice than to follow, because MR femi had something on him.

Pius later had to find out that he was being used by femi along side the minister to obtain treasures from a capsized ship.

So they tried all means to eliminate him, but they failed.

so enthralling, guess my younger sister still has the hard copy.

Was it the one that he dived and found some wooden head artwork?

armadeo:



Of course.
No orchids for miss blandish.

I think I have read all Chase books. I remember that vulture is a patient bird about the rimg with poison I think.

Blandish was about the kidnapped daughter of a rich man that the fat woman forced to love her son. She killed herself at the end.

My favs

All books with Helga rolfe, safer dead. Coffin from Hong Kong, a lotus for miss quon, you find him I'll fix him.

Many many more.

You are right about the plots.
I have read a lot as well. I think Helga Rolfe was in I Hold The Aces. Then there is one I loved so much about a shooting instructor who was paid by a rich man to teach his son to shoot but his wife later ran away with the boy.

There is also one about a rich man who lost his brother and was looking for voodoo to bring his brother back

Buchika:
Evbu my love.
The blackmailer
The smugglers .
Bloodbath at lobster close
The undesirable element.
The worshippers.
Wages of sin
Agony in her voice.

and so many others I can't remember of hand.
Lord!!! @ op u really sent me back to early 90s

I have read The Smugglers and The Blackmailer both by Kalu Okpi, Wages Of Sin but my best is The Undesirable Element where that rich man got that schoolgirl pregnant but denied the pregnancy then the girl later got married to that young guy who dealt with the rich man.

Memories of more than 20 years ago. When men were boys. Sighs

armadeo:



The term voracious was used to describe me then. I just leave this entire planet and enter my own world then.

I remember when I unearthed my mother's hardley Chase collection men I was almost insane with joy. She had about 3 large cartons filled with novels. I read them all.

So have you read The Vulture Is A Patient Bird and No Orchids For Miss something?

junnyjake:


Christmas in the City, the runaway bride(i don't like this one). no condition is permanent (spectrum publishers). The gun merchant, the rat race. And many more I can't wave my head around currently.


Later on I started reading lantern (their matured stories of course)

the pirate, beyond intimidation ati bee bee lo.

No more time to read like before sha.

We also had The Runaway Bride and No Condition Is Permanent in our collection but please give me a little reminder of the plot of No Condition Is Permanent

Coldfeets:


Point of correction. Social media did not fück up anything. This is life. It's called advancement. Asking for anything less is technically, retrogression.

I'm sure if you were to asked by someone now to start watching only B&W TV or start using those gramophones that our parents used to do Alanta, you will tell the person what tha fückkk?!!!

So that's just the way it is. Today we have Facebook and Twitter. Tomorrow who knows... But does that mean we will keep on longing for the good ol' days?

Hell no!

I say forward ever; backward never!

A deep thinker or a true seer will tell u that with technological advancement comes detachment from true humanity and true enjoyment of the important things of life.

Now because of this "advanced era" people live false and fake lives on Facebook, Twitter and instagram unlike the days of gramophone when people were real and simple.

These days humans have turned to robots because technology has pervaded every aspect of our lives making us artificial and unreal.

You close from work and are relaxing with ur wife but she is pressing her phone and u are pressing ur own and there's no real intimacy because both of u are more interested in fake friends on social media than a real husband or wife in real life.

The world is heading for something else.

So be careful what u wish for.

bellville:
You mean Isidore Okpewho? No I haven't

Yeah I meant Isidore. Ok

junnyjake:



señor, I hail o.

it's about a Biafran soldier thought to be dead by his family, eventually got released from prison.

Everyone at home were shocked to see him.

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Upon his return, he found out the love of his life 'Celina' got married to a bicycle repairer I guess.

Now he's faced with the challenge of winning her back.

I remember it vaguely now. Thanks! My parents had a collection of over 100 of such classic novels but my siblings over the years have given them all away cos they don't know the value. I miss them.

Is there any other one you have read?

Samankwe And The Highway Robbers

She Died Yesterday

lagos Na Wa

Please Don't Say No

The Potter's Wheel

Love On The Rocks

The Hopeful Lovers

Fools Rush In

So many classic novels from before there was the Internet, back when life was sweeter.

bellville:
I thoroughly enjoyed "The last duty" by Isidore Okpevwo. I read bottled leopard at 13 and found it scary.

For the best of African classics, check my signature. Prompt delivery throughout Nigeria.

Have you read The Rivals by Isidore Okpewho?

junnyjake:


yea yea, I loved the story that much.

look for 'the cyclist' and read it, I assure you, you'd love it.

I have read It! Some twenty years ago. Can't even remember the plot.

refiner:


lol...u must have forgotten the story!

it was an arrow that killed ekwueme,when ihuoma eldest son was chasing after lizard,and he mistakenly shot the arrow at at him...

ekwueme died by 12:00 in the midnight...

tho it's been years I read this novel but I can still remember it very very well!

I remember now.

The novel I was actually referring to is "THE RIVALS" by Isidore Okpewho

refiner:


I love this man!...

THE COCUBINE is one of my best novel, tho its end was tragic but the novel was superb!...he is one of our finest writer!

may his soul rip!

The end was really tragic.
I remember reading it when I was about ten years old and when I got to the end where the poor boy ate the poisoned food that was meant for another person tears rolled down my face and at that young age I couldn't understand why the boy had to die just because of his mom's foolishness.
That was 20 something years ago and I have not read it again since then but I can never forget that ending