Lady Here's Your Wreath [Large Print] [Paperback]

James Hadley Chase (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2003

Reporter Nick Mason witnesses an execution and gains a clue from the condemned man, sending Nick into a network of crime and murder!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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‘The thriller maestro of the generation’ – Manchester Evening News

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About the Author

James Hadley Chase was the pseudonym of successful British crime writer René Brabazon Raymond. Born in 1906 to a British colonel in the Indian Army, he was educated at King's School, Rochester in Kent and later studied in Calcutta. Leaving home at eighteen, he forewent an intended scientific career to work as an encyclopaedia salesman and book wholesaler. Inspired by the works of hardboiled American crime writers, Chase published his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, in 1938. It achieved remarkable popularity, and Chase dedicated himself to writing full time. He developed a number of dynamic series characters that featured in fast moving tales of murder, blackmail and espionage. At the time, his novels were controversial for their use of violence and sex, full of deadly villains and treacherous beautiful women. Although Chase set many of his books in America, he never lived there, instead deriving his knowledge from encyclopaedias, detailed maps, and a slang dictionary. During WWII, he served in the Royal Air Force, eventually achieving the rank of Squadron Leader (and simultaneously editing the RAF Journal). As an author he wrote more than eighty thrillers and enjoyed an enormous worldwide following. Translated into dozens of languages, his books have been widely adapted for film and television. Living a secluded life, Chase moved to France in 1956, and then to Switzerland in 1961. He died in 1985. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press (December 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786258357
• ISBN-13: 978-0786258352
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,247,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lady-- Here's Your Wreath, May 28, 2010

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This review is from: Lady--Here's Your Wreath (Paperback)

Plot is totally sidelined by the quality of the prose.A ragbag cocktail of British and American idioms that could only have been extracted from an exercise book by a non English first year student working remotely on a desert island.Difficult to believe this really came from JHC's pen.Appalling.

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2.0 out of 5 stars phonny, December 12, 2003

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This review is from: Lady: Here's Your Wreath (Paperback)

There's always strange voice dishing out instruction to a guy and surprisingly, the voice belongs to a woman. Lee Spencer, cares too much to know whose voice it is, even more than the guy. funny isnt it?

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars phonny, December 12, 2003

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Michael Churchill Dibulo (l) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady: Here's Your Wreath (Paperback)

A always strange voice was dishing out instruction to a guy and surprisingly, the voice belongs to a woman. Lee Spencer, cares too much to know whose voice it is, even more than the guy. funny isnt it?