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RENE BRABAZON RAYMOND

1906 - 1985

Writing as: James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, Raymond Marshall


A incredibly prolific writer of crime thrillers, often with racy and violent scenes which set the censors of that day into fits and made critics write terrible things about him. Even as they penned poisonous reviews, however, his fans grew in great numbers and so did his sales. Mr. Chase was born in London. To earn a living as a young adult he sold children's encyclopedias and then got a job as a book wholesaler. In his early thirties he tried writing for himself and found a career which would last the rest of his life. World War II interrupted for a time but he served in the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of Squadron Leader. Though he never lived in the States and only visited it twice, most of his tales were set there or dealt with Americans.



Series Books
James Hadley Chase
 
Mark Girland This Is For Real (1965)
  You Have Yourself A Deal (1966)
  Have This One On Me (1967)
  The Whiff Of Money (1969)
 
Don Micklem Mission To Venice (1954)
  Mission To Siena (1955)
 
Other An Ace Up My Sleeve [Helga Rolfe] (1971)
  Believe This, You'll Believe Anything (1975)
  Believed Violent [Frank Terrell] (1968)
  Cade (1966)
  A Can of Worms (1979)
  A Coffin from Hong Kong (1962)
  Come Easy, Go Easy (1960)
  Consider Yourself Dead (1978)
  The Dead Stay Dumb aka Kiss My Fist! (1939)
  Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead (1976)
  The Double Shuffle [Steve Harmas] (1952)
  An Ear to the Ground [Steve Harmas] (1968)
  Eve (1945)
  The Fast Buck (1952)
  Figure It Out for Yourself aka The Marijuana Mob [Vic Malloy] (1950)
  The Flesh of the Orchid (1948)
  Get a Load of This (1941)
  Goldfish Have No Hiding Place (1974)
  The Guilty Are Afraid (1957)
  Hand Me a Fig Leaf (1981)
  Have a Change of Scene (1973)
  Have a Nice Night (1982)
  Hit Them Where It Hurts (1984)
  I Hold the Four Aces [Helga Rolfe] (1977)
  I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962)
  I'll Bury My Dead (1953)
  I'll Get You for This (1946)
  The Joker in the Pack [Helga Rolfe] (1975)
  Just a Matter of Time (1972)
  Just Another Sucker (1961)
  Knock, Knock! Who's There? (1973)
  Lay Her Among the Lilies aka Too Dangerous to Be Free [Vic Malloy] (1950)
  Like a Hole in the Head (1970)
  A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961)
  Meet Mark Girland (1977)
  Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941)
  Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944)
  My Laugh Comes Last (1977)
  No Orchids for Miss Blandish aka The Villain And the Virgin [Dave Fenner] (1939)
  Not My Thing (1983)
  Not Safe to Be Free aka The Case of the Strangled Starlet (1958)
  One Bright Summer Morning (1963)
  Safer Dead aka Dead Ringer (1954)
  Shock Treatment [Steve Harmas] (1959)
  So What Happens to Me? (1974)
  The Soft Centre [Frank Terrell] (1964)
  Strictly for Cash (1951)
  Tell It to the Birds [Steve Harmas] (1963)
  There's a Hippie On the Highway [Frank Terrell] (1970)
  There's Always a Price Tag [Steve Harmas] (1956)
  This Way for a Shroud (1953)
  Three of Spades (1974)
  Tiger By the Tail (1954)
  Try This One for Size (1980)
  Twelve Chinks and a Woman aka The Doll's Bad News [Dave Fenner] (1940)
  The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (1969)
  Want to Stay Alive? (1971)
  The Way the Cookie Crumbles [Frank Terrell] (1965)
  Well Now, My Pretty [Frank Terrell] (1967)
  We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982)
  What's Better Than Money? (1960)
  The World in My Pocket (1959)
  You Can Say That Again (1980)
  You Must Be Kidding (1979)
  You Never Know with Women (1949)
  You're Dead Without Money (1972)
  You're Lonely When You're Dead [Vic Malloy] (1949)
  You've Got It Coming (1955)
 
James L. Docherty
 
Other He Won't Need It Now (1939)
 
Ambrose Grant
 
Other More Deadly Than The Male (1946)
 
Raymond Marshall
 
Other Blondes’ Requiem (1945)
  But a Short Time to Live (1951)
  Hit and Run (1958)
  In a Vain Shadow (1951)
  Just the Way It Is (1944)
  Lady, Here’s Your Wreath (1940)
  Make the Corpse Walk (1946)
  Mallory [Martin “Brick Top” Corridon] (1950)
  Never Trust a Woman (1957)
  No Business of Mine (1947)
  The Paw in the Bottle (1949)
  The Pickup (1955)
  Ruthless (1955)
  The Sucker Punch (1954)
  The Things Men Do (1953)
  Trusted Like the Fox (1948)
  The Wary Transgressor (1952)
  Why Pick on Me? [Martin “Brick Top” Corridon] (1951)
  You Find Him-I’ll Fix Him (1956)