![]() ![]() He served in the RAF during World War II, where he also edited the RAF Journal. His work was published in dozens of languages and over thirty titles were adapted for film. He had phenomenal success with the novel, which continued unabated throughout his entire career, spanning 45 years and nearly 90 novels. Despite the American setting of many of his novels, Chase (like Peter Cheyney, another hugely successful British noir writer) never lived there, writing with the aid of maps and a slang dictionary. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. ![]() He initially worked in book sales until, inspired by the rise of gangster culture during the Depression and by reading James M. Born Rene Brabazon Raymond in London, the son of a British colonel in the Indian Army, James Hadley Chase was educated at King's School in Rochester, Kent, and left home at the age of 18. ![]()
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