James Hadley Chase Novels: Share Your Experience

All his books are sort of similar. He's a bit of a moralist too. No one, and I mean no one, gets away with it in his books.You kill someone or mess up somehow and you're done for! And once he sucks you into his world he doesn't let you go until he spits you out at the end of the book.

I loved The Vulture is a Patient Bird, so different. Another favourite,  Help, I cant recall the title! There's a woman, I think her name was Helga,  married to a rich old guy. She's the loose type. The husband has a stroke in a fit of rage,and lay in bed sans speech, but conceiving a hatred for her. They have a butler. The're all in Tahiti or Haiti or some other voodoo country. One night someone stabs a voodoo doll of the hubby with a needle to the head or heart, and he dies. She sees a boy young enough to be her so, falls for him. A mysterious young girl turns up who's more than a match for her. I forget how it ends but it turned out the girl was the husband's long-estraged daughter. Omigod I cant recall the title. And I read it over a dozen times! 

Really? Thanks.

no, he's not good, he's one of the BEST, whether dead or alive

James Hadley Chase is no doubt one of the finest writer of crime thrillers. He had strong imagination for names, names that remain forever in your memory-LU Silk, Mark Girland, Tom Lepski, Art Galgano, Toni Capello, Dave Fenner etc . He also had good knack for memeorable titles. His plots are also impressive. I studied him for many years to get the art of storytelling. But then every book has its time, -though his books still make interesting readings,  other more contemporary writers have overtaken  him.  or rather time has overtaken his novels. you can't compare the imagination evoke by Grisham's writing to Chase's.Grisham's plot and setting seem to be something you can relate with. Chase's  belonged to a distant past. However, for any aspiring author, you can study Chase to learn how to condense facts into simple sentence, how to describe a character without mincing words, how to make a character sticks in your reader' memory and also  how to create  suspense.
you can add these titles:
Eve
do me a favour drop dead
like hole in the head
tiger by the tail
mallory
what's better than money?
lay her among the lilies
an ear to the ground
just for the record
you find her, i fix her
No orchid for Miss Blandish
The flesh of the Orchid
The Doll's Bad news
This is for real
Why pick on me
Mission to venice
mission to Siena
Consider yourself dead
double shuffle
An ace up my sleeve
I hold the aces*
deadlier than the male
Miss Callaghan comes to grief(written in 1948 as Ambrose Grant)
I will bury my dead

One bright Summer morning
Goldfish has no hiding place
No lotus for Miss Quon
I'd rather stay poor
Pull a fast one*

he's a good writer, n he was not an american, yet he writes like he's been there all his life

you eant to be very smart then get all the copies of jame hadley chase,although most of his cover page portry some else but the are nice poet,

Please don't laugh at me Oh! for those old timers please let me know where to purchase any of these book. I was a kid when these Chase books where reigning in Nijja. I actually had big Cousins beating themselves in the back yard of our house to read these books.But me i was too young and since growing up these same babas who are my cousin are now reminiscing the old days and being an avid reader myself i am so curious and i really am desperate to read one or two chase books. Me i am more the Sidney Sheldon,Dan Brown and John Grisham type but there is no missing a good era. So boys and girls what is the way forward with this? Where can i buy from? Show me the wayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

Thanks dude

I loved "The vulture is a patient bird",

I read a lot and wrote the titles down. I wrote up to 72 before I lost my records.

Hmmmmm,

Remember coffin from hong kong,its really been a long time, i am wondering if we had studied our books the same way we read James hardley chase lol.

There is one i can't remember,

This guy is a writer he goes to a secluded place on vacation and he is kidnapped after an attempted robbery close to his house all his cooks are murdered.


help me out

anyone read:

'We shall share a double funeral'

that was the best.

Vito Ferrari,  how can anyone ever forget that.

I am sure I read 'figure it out for yourself but cant remember it.

I enjoyed: 'so what happens to me'

I loved Like A Hole In the Head, was real nice

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Hmnn James Hadley Chase !. His novels really enhance my writting skill. I am so indebted to him.

His novels are very very addctive. You wont ever let go !. I have read other authors like Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum etc., however, they are great crime writer as well, but James Hadley Chase will always lead the pack as far as I'm concerned.

His story plots and english construct are second to none!.