Just the Way It Is - Softcover
Two 1940s crime classics from the author of No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Crime, Money, Deception, Blonde. All the essential ingredients of a thriller are in place, along with twists and surprises. GoodReads.
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René Lodge 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 with his wife Sylvia 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.
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Crime, Money, Deception, Blonde. All the essential ingredients of a thriller are in place, along with twists and surprises. --Athul Raj, GoodReads
His best works sometimes read like a pastiche of a Gold Medal original or noir film...They move fast, and at their best manage to recreate the kind of doomed noirish atmosphere of James M. Cain. --David L. Vineyard, Mystery*File
Early Hadley Chase thriller about a series of disappearances in a small American town...it's fast-paced and the ending is decidedly creepy and dramatic. --Charles Goodger, GoodReads
His best works sometimes read like a pastiche of a Gold Medal original or noir film...They move fast, and at their best manage to recreate the kind of doomed noirish atmosphere of James M. Cain. --David L. Vineyard, Mystery*File
Early Hadley Chase thriller about a series of disappearances in a small American town...it's fast-paced and the ending is decidedly creepy and dramatic. --Charles Goodger, GoodReads
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
- Publication date1950
- ISBN 10 0586036350
- ISBN 13 9780586036358
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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