Novelist James Hadley Chase

Bring me a cup of Java, honey, and put some coffee in the water, will you?... Whoa there! Bet you can feel the withering sarcasm in that simple phrase... People, I welcome you to the world of crime novels by James Hadley Chase... With cryptic titles like I'll Bury My Dead, it's a crime novel befitting even the dead... The protagonists in every novel, Mr Chase humanized each of them in good stead... As a crime writer, Mr Chase has no master, or even an equal of his calibre... Dialogues, suave and cultured or in the low life lingo, is excellence beyond compare... Most of all, the many believable twists and turns in every one of his crime story... You'll empathise with the hero and the heroine, and root for them in each story... What Is Better Than Money is yet another master yarn uniquely spun by Mr Chase... About how a piano player bidding time tangled with a junky beauty with trilling vocals .... It is amazing how you will identify with the struggling two bit piano player as he grapples... With the opportunity of a lifetime to hitch his economic wagon on a less than perfect starlet.. In No Orchids For Miss Blandish, I remember rereading the same book twice over... To be thrilled and to savour how the master story teller spun the story altogether... Mind you, I was back then just a little boy, given access to the senior section of the library.. Faced with rows and decks of all kind of books, I was a bewildered boy lost in the library... Then I spied a rather worn out hard cover book entitled No Orchids for Miss Blandish... Small in print, yellowed in pages and looked slightly misbegotten, but the title intrigued.. Reaching home, I could not put down the book once I started reading that slim book... I was thrilled, I was truly engrossed in a fascinating tale of crime found within a book... Etched in my memory to this day, I recall vividly the awe and the joy in novels by Mr Chase... Little wonder through the years I often read and reread crime novels spun by Mr Chase... James Hadley Chase, crime story teller supreme, without any cheap graphic x rated scenes... He is the ultimate maestro for story characters and crime tales that electrify your senses... Readers, Mr James Hadley Chase, he's The Man for grippping realistic crime stories....!!!