No Orchids for Miss Blandish / Twleve Chinamen and a Woman - Softcover

Chase, James Hadley; Fraser, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944520066 ISBN 13: 9781944520069

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2016

Synopsis

NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH When Riley gets word that Miss Blandish is going out on the town with her new pearl necklace, he decides to stage a jewelry snatch. Things get a little out of hand, and the gang ends up snatching Miss Blandish, too. Now they’ve got a kidnapping on their hands. But that’s when the Grisson Gang steps in and takes over. Ma Grisson wants the pearls, but her sadistic son Slim wants Miss Blandish. And whatever Slim wants, Slim gets—one way or the other. So the ransom is paid, but Mr. Blandish doesn’t get his daughter back. That’s when Fenner is hired, a detective as ruthless as the gang he’s after. They’ve broken Miss Blandish, but will Fenner be able to break them? TWELVE CHINAMEN AND A WOMAN Hot off the Blandish case, Dave Fenner is contacted by a frightened young lady who is looking for her sister. Laying down six grand as a retainer, she tells him that all she knows is that her sister is mixed up with twelve Chinamen. Intrigued, Fenner agrees to take the case, only to find that someone has planted a dead Chinaman in his office. No sooner has he removed that problem, Fenner is than visited by two Cubans who search his office, pistol whip him—and lead him to an apartment where he finds his murdered client. Now it’s personal and Fenner will stop at nothing to find the gang behind this strange operation. Which leads him to Pio Carlos, trafficker in human cargo...and Glorie Leadler, a beauty who is not at all who she seems.

About this title

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:

A brilliant piece of writing, with hardly a word wasted or a false note anywhere. --George Orwell, Raffles and Miss Blandish

"No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939) did for the gangster novel what Raymond Chandler s The Big Sleep did in the same year for the private-eye novel. --John Fraser, Found Pages

"A very well-written non-stop adventure, soaked in blood and dripping with cynicism." --Ralph E. Vaughan, Amazon.com, on Twelve Chinamen and a Woman

About this edition

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1944520066
• ISBN 13: 9781944520069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284