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James Hadley Chase (1906–1985)

Auteur van Geen orchideeën voor Miss Blandish

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(eng) Reference to his work being published by Harlequin can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_Romance

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Eve (1945) 95 exemplaren
The Guilty Are Afraid (1957) 91 exemplaren
Terreur (1963) 86 exemplaren
A Coffin from Hong Kong (1962) 81 exemplaren
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I'll Bury My Dead (1953) 73 exemplaren
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Tiger by the Tail (1954) 68 exemplaren
Like a Hole in the Head (1970) 66 exemplaren
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Twelve Chinks and a Woman (1952) 64 exemplaren
The Flesh of the Orchid (1940) 63 exemplaren
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An ace up my sleeve (1970) 61 exemplaren
Figure it Out for Yourself (1951) 61 exemplaren
The World in My Pocket (1959) 60 exemplaren
A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961) 59 exemplaren
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Strictly for Cash (1951) 55 exemplaren
He Won't Need It Now (1955) 53 exemplaren
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Mission to Siena (1955) 51 exemplaren
You're Dead Without Money (1972) 49 exemplaren
I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962) 49 exemplaren
Just Another Sucker (1961) 48 exemplaren
Well Now, My Pretty (1967) 48 exemplaren
Mission to Venice (1954) 46 exemplaren
Shock Treatment (1959) 46 exemplaren
The Whiff of Money (1969) 45 exemplaren
Have a Change of Scene (1973) 44 exemplaren
You're Lonely When You're Dead (1949) 44 exemplaren
You Have Yourself a Deal (1966) 43 exemplaren
The Fast Buck (1952) 43 exemplaren
The Paw in the Bottle (1949) 43 exemplaren
Not Safe to Be Free (1958) 42 exemplaren
The Wary Transgressor (1952) 41 exemplaren
What's Better Than Money? (1960) 41 exemplaren
Get a Load of This (Anthology) (1988) 40 exemplaren
There's a Hippie on the Highway (1970) 40 exemplaren
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Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944) 40 exemplaren
Hit and Run (1958) 39 exemplaren
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De wereld van Glorie Dean (1955) 39 exemplaren
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Safer Dead aka Dead Ringer (1954) 39 exemplaren
Cade (1968) 38 exemplaren
The Double Shuffle (1952) 38 exemplaren
My Laugh Comes Last (1976) 37 exemplaren
Knock Knock Who's There? (1973) 37 exemplaren
Nog maar even (1951) 36 exemplaren
Believed Violent (1968) 36 exemplaren
Trusted Like the Fox (1948) 36 exemplaren
Mallory (1950) 35 exemplaren
Jade voor een stoeipoes (1951) 35 exemplaren
More Deadly Than the Male (1946) 35 exemplaren
Have This One on Me (1967) 34 exemplaren
There's Always a Price Tag (1956) 34 exemplaren
Have a Nice Night (1981) 33 exemplaren
The Sucker Punch (1954) 33 exemplaren
Hand Me A Fig Leaf (1981) 31 exemplaren
An Ear to the Ground (1968) 31 exemplaren
Consider yourself dead (1978) 30 exemplaren
Want to Stay Alive? (1971) 30 exemplaren
Bloedgeld (1965) 29 exemplaren
You Must be Kidding (1979) 28 exemplaren
Do Me a Favour-Drop Dead (1975) 28 exemplaren
The Things Men Do (1953) 28 exemplaren
Never Trust a Woman (1951) 27 exemplaren
We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982) 25 exemplaren
Just the Way It Is (1944) 25 exemplaren
Try This One for Size (1980) 25 exemplaren
A Can of Worms (1979) 24 exemplaren
So What Happens To Me? (1974) 23 exemplaren
The Soft Centre (1964) 21 exemplaren
No Business of Mine (1947) 20 exemplaren
I Hold the Four Aces (1976) 20 exemplaren
The joker in the pack (1974) 19 exemplaren
Not My Thing (1983) 19 exemplaren
Hit Them Where it Hurts (1985) 18 exemplaren
You Can Say That Again (1979) 17 exemplaren
Blondes' Requiem (1946) 12 exemplaren
Night Out (1964) 10 exemplaren
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Si Deseas Seguir Viviendo (1995) 3 exemplaren
I cinque volti di Chase (1973) 3 exemplaren
Dark ladies (1989) 3 exemplaren
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Shock Treatment (1981) 2 exemplaren
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Gangbare naam
Chase, James Hadley
Officiële naam
Raymond, René Brabazon
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Chase, James Hadley
Docherty, James L.
Grant, Ambrose
Marshall, Raymond
Cejz, Dzejms Chedli
Geboortedatum
1906-12-24
Overlijdensdatum
1985-02-06
Graflocatie
Cimetière des Monts-de-Corsier Corseaux, District de la Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut, Vaud, Switzerland
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
UK
Geboorteplaats
London, England, UK
Plaats van overlijden
Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland
Woonplaatsen
London, England, UK (birth)
Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Calcutta, India
France
Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Switzerland (death)
Opleiding
King's School, Rochester, Kent, England, UK
Beroepen
Writer
Organisaties
Royal Air Force
Korte biografie
James Hadley Chase is a pseudonym for British author Rene Brabazon Raymond (December 24,1906 – February 6, 1985) who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant and Raymond Marshall. Chase, a London-born son of a British colonel serving in the colonial Indian Army who intended his son to have a scientific career, was initially raised at the King's School, Rochester, Kent and later studied in Calcutta. He left home at the age of 18 and became at different times a broker in a bookshop, a children's encyclopedia salesman and book wholesaler before capping it all with a writing career that produced more than 80 mystery books. In 1933, Chase married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. Following the US Great Depression (1929-1939), the Prohibition, and the gangster culture during this period, and after reading James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), he decided to try his own hand as a mystery writer. He had read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons, and with the help of maps and a slang dictionary, he composed in six weeks No Orchids for Miss Blandish. The book achieved remarkable popularity and became one of the best-sold books of the decade. It was a stage play in London's West End, was filmed in 1948 and in 1971 was remade by Robert Aldrich as The Grissom Gang. During World War II he served as a pilot in the RAF, eventually achieving the rank of Squadron Leader. In 1946 Graham Greene, who was a very good friend of Chase's, selected a Chase novel, More Deadly Than the Male (written under the pseudonym Ambrose Grant), for publishing under the Bloomsbury logo. Chase wrote most of his books using a dictionary of American slang, detailed maps, encyclopedias and reference books on the American underworld. He was wildly popular in Asia and Africa. He also enjoyed success in France and Italy where more than twenty of his books were made into movies. Joseph Losey's film version of Chase's thriller EVE (1945), made in 1962, was cut by the producers, the Hakim brothers. He was also extremely popular in the Soviet Union during and after the perestroika years around 1990-1993. Chase moved to France in 1956 and over to Switzerland in 1961, living a secluded life in Corseaux-Sur-Vevey, north of Lake Geneva, from 1974. He eventually died there peacefully on February 6, 1985.
Ontwarringsbericht
Reference to his work being published by Harlequin can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequi...

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Fast moving north crime novel. Generally this type of crime story is not my thing but I couldn't put this one down.
 
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leslie.98 | 15 andere besprekingen | Jun 27, 2023 |
Serena Marshaland era la cuarta mujer más rica del mundo, y tenía todo el aspecto de serlo. Una belleza fría y dura como el demonio, con ojos de acero. Cuando su marido fue secuestrado, y se pidió un fuerte rescate por él, Serena contrató a Vic Mallory, un recio detective privado, para que les entregara el dinero a los secuestradores.
Vic no era ingenuo. sabía que los delincuentes no dudarían en eliminarlo apenas tuvieran el dinero en sus manos.
 
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Natt90 | Apr 11, 2023 |
Para Vic Dermott, lo importante era escribir su quinta comedia y que tuviese tanto éxito en Broadway como las anteriores. Big Jim Kramer, por su parte, estaba obsesionado con recuperar los cuatro millones de dólares acumulados en su pasado de gangster de altos vuelos y recientemente perdidos por culpa de un administrador poco escrupuloso. Los problemas de Moe Zegetti eran muy distintos: la enfermedad de su madre y el trauma de dos terribles años pasados en la penitenciaría de San Quintín. En cuanto a Riff y Chita Cranee, les bastaba con su actividad de delincuentes de ínfima categoría. Nada parecía indicar que fueran a cruzarse destinos tan dispares y, sin embargo, de una manera u otra, todos ellos iban a verse envueltos en un mismo asunto. Un sucio asunto de rapto, que no tardaría en adquirir tintes sangrientos.… (meer)
 
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Natt90 | 1 andere bespreking | Feb 12, 2023 |
Waste of time
the only interesting part to me was the gangster language they used back there, though the fact that written by a British beyond the the pond cast some questions
 
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