wingmanII:
Mark Girland

akhimself234:
James Hadley Chase:

Facts you probably didn't
know about him

He was born on December 24, 1906.

He was born Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond

James Hadley Chase was just one
of various pseudonyms (pen name)
he used, and the most popular
one. Others were James L. Docherty,
Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond and
Ambrose Grant.

Born to Colonel Francis Raymond
of the Colonial Indian Army, he served
in the Royal Airforce during
During World War II.

His writing career saw him produced
over 90 thriller books.

You can get hold of any or all of these
novels (paperbacks or hardcover)
easily straight from the U.S today on
Shop2Africa.com

For example, you can order the
novel "You've Got It Coming"
here https:///HPKZBX

50 of his books have been made
into films.

Below are the full list of his books:

1. No Orchids for Miss Blandish - 1939
2. The Dead Stay Dumb - 1941
3. The Dolls Bad News - 1941
4. Miss Callghan Comes to Grief - 1941
5. Get a Load of This - 1942
6. Miss Shumway Waves a Wand - 1944
7. Eve - 1945
8. I'll Get You for This - 1946
9. Last Page - 1947
10. The Flesh of the Orchid - 1948
11. You Never Know With Women - 1949
12. You're Lonely When You're Dead - 1949
13. Figure It Out for Yourself - 1950
14. Strictly for Cash - 1951
15. The Fast Buck - 1952
16. Double Shuffle - 1952
17. I'll Bury My Dead - 1953
18. This Way for a Shroud - 1953
19. Tiger By The Tail - 1954
20. Safer Dead - 1954
21. You've Got It Coming - 1955
22. There's Always a Price Tag - 1956
23. The Guilty Are Afraid - 1957
24. Not Safe to Be Free - 1958
25. Shock Treatment - 1959
26. The World In My Pocket - 1959
27. What's Better Than Money - 1960
28. Come Easy - Go Easy - 1960
29. A Lotus for Miss Quon - 1961
30. Just Another Sucker - 1961
31. I Would Rather Stay Poor - 1962
32. A Coffin from Hong Kong - 1962
33. One Bright Summer Morning - 1963
34. Tell It to The Birds - 1963
35. The Soft Centre - 1964
36. This is for Real - 1965
37. The Way the Cookie Crumbles - 1965
38. You Have Yourself A Deal - 1966
39. Cade - 1966
40. Have This One on Me - 1967
41. Well Now - My Pretty - 1967
42. An Ear to the Ground - 1968
43. Believed Violet - 1968
44. The Whiff of Money - 1969
45. The Vulture Is a Patient Bird - 1969
46. Like a Hole in the Head - 1970
47. There's a Hippie on the Highway - 1970
48. Want to Stay Alive? - 1971
49. An Ace Up My Sleeve - 1971
50. Just a Matter of Time - 1972
51. You're Dead Without Money - 1972
52. Have a Change of Scene - 1973
53. Knock, Knock! Who's There?
54. So What Happens To Me? - 1974
55. Goldfish Have No Hiding Place - 1974
56. Believe This - You'll Believe Anything - 1975
57. The Joker In The Pack - 1975
58. Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead - 1976
59. My Laugh Comes Last - 1977
60. I Hold the Four Aces - 1977
61. Consider Yourself Dead - 1978
62. You Must Be Kidding - 1979
63. A Can of Worms - 1979
64. You Can Say That Again - 1980
65. Try This One for Size - 1980
66. Hand Me a Fig Leaf - 1981
67. Have a Nice Night - 1982
68. We'll Share a Double Funeral - 1982
69. Not My Thing - 1983
70. Hit Them Where It Hurts - 1984
71. He Won't Need It Now - 1941
72. Lady, Here's Your Wreath - 1940
73. Just The Way It Is - 1944
74. Blonde's Requiem - 1945
75. Make The Corpse Walk - 1947
76. No Business of Mine - 1947
77. Trusted Like the Fox - 1948
78. The Paw in the Bottle - 1949
79. Mallory - 1950
80. But A Short Time To Live - 1951
81. Why Pick on Me? - 1951
82. In A Vain Shadow - 1951
84. The Wary Transgressor - 1952
85. The Things Men Do - 1953
86. The Sucker Punch - 1954
87. Mission To Venice - 1954
88. Mission To Sienna - 1955
89. You Find Him, I'll Fix Him - 1956
90. Hit And Run - 1958
91. Slipstream: A Royal Airforce Anthology - 1946
92. More Deadly Than The Male - 1947

His novels' biggest market was France,
although also popular in other European
markets, Africa and Asia.

His books failed to take hold in the
American market.

Chase got married to Sylvia Ray in
1932 and they had a son.

He died in Switzerland at the age of 78.

How many of his books did you read?

famosty:
Have plenty of his books on my system

priceaction:
Those novels will wake you to watch movies from your brain. Now it is games people play on their spare time. I recently downloaded over 30 of his novels again free online. I love reading them. Apart from James hardely chase, pacesetter novels were another series I love to read. How time flies.


for those asking me where to download, start with this just 36,: if i have time, i will update
https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AO%2DPLtQPMfhORAA&id=778A5C67A69F615C%21220&cid=778A5C67A69F615C

another 90 free for android phone users.
if you cant read it on phobne, folloe this steps

To upload files on your Android device: same as pc users

Open the Google Play Books app.
Touch the Menu > Settings > Enable PDF uploading.
Exit the app.

Download a PDF or EPUB file on your device and touch Upload to Play Books.

or to avoid the stress, just download Universal Book Reader from playstore, and thats it.
download the books here
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-sD0pQt4tkYem9rYjN3UnNzNmc ( just double click on anybook and save to ur android phone)

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ElsonMorali:


Lol. So true. I went to a military school so taking them to school and risk being caught was a no-no.

How could you explain that a book with such cover was actually innocent and interesting.

So many books shaped my childhood.

Enid Blyton, Nancy Drew mysteries, Famous Five, Secret Seven...chai... Those were the days.

These days everybody is glued to their phones, no more reading.

matinos28:
u didn't add "there is always a price tag".... that's my favorite

honor4me:
Almost all his books in the 80s. He was a mentor that was never seen. He nade me to excel in the use of English language. Sadly, his works could not hold me again when i discovered the works of Sydney Sheldon, Harold Robbins and this man whose works were solely devoted to legal matters. World has changed now, our youths are only interested in in snap chat, Instagram etc etc. I'm not blaming them. Maybe all these will also become history in another 30 years time

wingmanII:


Poko Toholo.
" Fear is the key that opens the rich man's wallet, I have the formula for fear"

zicoraads:

Enid Blyton was lit too

Sadly, it's the age. And it manifests in how most of them write and converse. Even their conversational skills are terrible. Phones are not doing this generation a lot of good.

lefulefu:
Really loved reading the James Hardley Chase novels.As a kid my Dad had a whole lot of collection of the chase novels.i was so addicted to it that the ones my dad didnt have i would rush to the bookshop to buy. One of my favourite chase villians was Lu Silk the assasin who works for the German bilioniare business man Herman Randnitz and of course the Russian soviet secret agent Malik...who was Mark Girland's nemesis and my favourite paradise city detective First Grade Tom Lepski with his nagging wife carol. Op do u also know dat Hardley Chase for all his obsession about the USA had only been to the USA once? And he made dat trip quite late in his lifetime. Also most of the american slangs he used in his novels were picked from encyclopeadeas plus majority of the american cities he wrote about like paradise city were just fictitious cities he made up from his mind.Anyway indomie kids born in the year 2005 wont know what is James Hardley Chase.So indomie kids keep ur ears to the ground and learn about the maestro called James Hardley Chase.

CriticMaestro:
Familiar name
Never read his books
Then again, how many books have I even read!
Buckle up son, you've got some reading to do

mightyhazell:
dats 'want to stay alive?'

jpmoriarti:
What about Claude Kendrick, the tall, enormously fat queer, with an amiable expression of a dolphin, the art collector. His role in "Try this one on for size" made me love that particular novel so much.

JHC is still my best author. Cant forget those novels

Coldsteel:
Tiger by the tail....His very first novel i read way back early 90's.
Then Strictly for cash...Mehn,that was the bomb...
Then i started rolling Chase...
Hand me a fig leaf
The dead stay dumb
Mission to venice/sienna
The way the cookies crumble
He won't need it now
Believed voilent
Tell it to the birds.....
When you check the number of thrillers he has written in his entire lifetime,then divide by his active years,you will understand why i call him LEGEND

imagrg:
I've read them all. I presently have the one titled " Cade" with me. I need a download link please

bigpicture001:
I still wonder y aghata Christie detective books that are soo soo boring is hailed as the best ever British detective books. silly ppl.... james hardly chase shaped my mind on.many tins.. he books where so interesting that it gave me over 50 friends growing up as we formed a chase club and buy and borrow ourselves. op u shld have added that he was a British man.and first a bookstore keeper, his books are mostly about American crime dominated society, he uses American slangs and he learnt both the location of his scenes and the slangs from American encyclopedia and dictionary. he was a marvelous writer. his books were later banned in Nigeria during OBJ's military reign cuz of its imposing characters nd popularity in NIGERIA........

mightyhazell:
john grisham



u shd try robbin cook,the medical thriller and den dean koontz /steve kings,the mystery thrillers. na there u go sabi say men dey,lol

lefulefu:
hm can u get these books in nigeria? Even hardley chase these days are not dat easy to get anymore. Oyibo man know say most of we africans no dey interested in reading anymore so they dont bother sending their books. Even chimananda Adichie books most of them na westerners dey read am.

famosty:
Have plenty of his books on my system

pocohantas:
My Laugh Comes Last
The Guilty Are Afraid

Those are my favourite JHC books.

I've owned up to 70.Lucky me, they are pretty cheap
Looking at that list, I think I have read almost all.