About the Author:
René Brabazon Raymond, better known by his pseudonym, James Hadley Chase, was born on December 24, 1906, in Ealing, London and was educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. He left home when he was about eighteen and worked as a traveling salesman selling children's encyclopedias. Later, he joined a wholesale book firm. Chase took up full time writing in 1939 after his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, became an immediate success. He moved to France in 1956 and over to Switzerland in 1961, living a secluded life in Corseaux-Sur-Vevey north of Lake Geneva, where he died on February 6, 1985. The author of over 90 books, most of them hardboiled Americanized thrillers, Chase remains one of the best known mystery writers of all time.
Review:
This is a hard boiled ride from Chase that never lets up. A news photographer gets caught between rival gangs for the dope business in New York City. Lots of dames, bullets, mugs, booze, crooked cops and fast action. --Vintage45s Blog
You may be horrified by his characters, but your sympathy races along with them. --Eastern Daily Press
The king of all thriller writers. --Cape Times
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