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James Hadley Chase Set - 88 Books

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SET OF 88 TITLES. BRAND NEW SHIPPED DIRECTLY BY THE PUBLISHERS - MASTERMIND BOOKS : A Can Of Worms A Coffin From Hongkong A Lotus For Miss Quon An Ace Up My Sleeve An Ear To The Ground Believe This You'll Believe Anything Believed Violent But A Short Time To Live Cade Come Easy - Go Easy Consider Yourself Dead Do Me A Favour-- Drop Dead Figure It Out For Yourself Get A Load Of This Goldfish Have No Hiding Place Hand Me A Fig Leaf Have A Change Of Scene *Have A Nice Night Have This One On Me He Won't Need It Now Hit And Run Hit Them Where It Hurts I Hold The Four Aces I Would Rather Stay Poor I'll Bury My Dead I'll Get You For This In A Vain Shadow Just A Matter Of Time Just Another Sucker Just The Way It Is Knock,Knock! Who's There? Lady Here's Your Wreath Lay Her Among The Lilies Like A Hole In The Head Make The Corpse Walk Mallory Miss Shumway Waves The Wand Mission To Sienna Mission To Venice More Deadly Than The Male My Laugh Come Last No Business Of Mine No Orchids For Miss Blandish Not My Thing Not Safe To Be Free One Bright Summer Morning Safer Dead Shock Treatment......................88 titles

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James Hadley Chase

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René Lodge Brabazon Raymond was born on 24th December 1906 in London, England, the son of Colonel Francis Raymond of the colonial Indian Army, a veterinary surgeon. His father intended his son to have a scientific career, was initially educated at King's School, Rochester, Kent. He left home at the age of 18 and became at different times a children's encyclopedia salesman, a salesman in a bookshop, and executive for a book wholesaler before turning to a writing career that produced more than 90 mystery books. His interests included photography (he was up to professional standard), reading and listening to classical music, being a particularly enthusiastic opera lover. Also as a form of relaxation between novels, he put together highly complicated and sophisticated Meccano models.

In 1932, Raymond married Sylvia Ray, who gave him a son. They were together until his death fifty three years later. Prohibition and the ensuing US Great Depression (1929–1939), had given rise to the Chicago gangster culture just prior to World War II. This, combined with her book trade experience, made him realise that there was a big demand for gangster stories. He wrote as R. Raymond, James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant and Raymond Marshall.

During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, achieving the rank of Squadron Leader. Chase edited the RAF Journal with David Langdon and had several stories from it published after the war in the book Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology.

Raymond moved to France in 1956 and then to Switzerland in 1969, living a secluded life in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, on Lake Geneva, from 1974. He eventually died there peacefully on 6 February 1985.

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October 18, 2021
Without the James Hadley chase collections, I wouldn't be here reading books. They brought me in the world of books. Always the best.
I remember my parents taking away all my collection of Hadley chase novels because they thought i would become one bad a** thief lmao.

I will forever love this novels.
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September 1, 2022
JHC books take u to the different world. it's discription of characters,events, situations are so minutely written and explained that you feel like taking a simulation tour .
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February 11, 2024
(Thật ra là mình ko có đọc hết cả set, chỉ đọc cuốn "Buổi hẹn cuối cùng" thôi mà tìm lòi mắt ko thấy, cũng ko biết tựa tiếng Anh là gì. Nên thôi, log tạm vô đây vậy.)
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May 11, 2021
Great
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December 29, 2022
I only wish to thank this platform developer and team for a good job and time spent in making books I thought I could not find, readily available and also easily accessible.
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