BOOKS BY JAMES HADLEY CHASE

During my teen years in 1980s and early adulthood, James Hadley Chase was my favorite writer. Here is a list of all his books. I have all of them except the short stories. The current generation of youth in India  have not even heard of this author; No one I know in Canada have ever heard of James Hadley Chase...except Indians in Canada. For some reason, Chase was a beloved author in India of the 70s and 80s but virtually unknown in USA, where most of his novels are set.

I wonder if Chase was so well known in India because his were the only books available and other authors were not so accessible in the private circulating libraries in Indian cities? Or is it because his books were more interesting and less complex than the other crime fiction books available in Indian libraries at the time? I found Chase books much easier to read and fast paced compared to the other books available at the time in India. The plots were more or less linear and not too complex, compared to say...Alistair Maclean and other writers.

Chase books were out of print and unavailable for a while except a few books on ebay and amazon. But now,  as recently as 2000, his books have been reprinted by various publishers like The murder room, Stark house press, House of Stratus, Bruin books, etc. his books are also available in Kindle, Audible audio, hardcover and softcover.

I enjoy some of his books so much that I reread them almost every year when the mood comes. But some are so sad or the characters put me off so much  that I don't ever read them again but like a true hoarder, I have bought all of his books, even those which I am unlikely to read!

The books I love include Miss Shumway waves a wand, Double shuffle, the Mark Girland series, the Mission to Venice and mission to Sienna, and more.

The list below is from Wikepedia.

James Hadley Chase

(1)1939	No Orchids for Miss Blandish also The Villain and the Virgin ---------
(2)1941	The Dead Stay Dumb ----------------
(3)1941	Twelve Chinks and a Woman also Twelve Chinamen and a Woman also The Doll's Bad News --------------
(4)1941	Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief -----------
(5)1942	Get a Load of This (short story collection) ---------------
(6)1944	Miss Shumway Waves a Wand ------------
(7)1945	Eve ------------------------
(8)1946	I'll Get You for This ----------------------------------
(9)1947	Last Page (play) ---------------------
(10)1948	The Flesh of the Orchid ---------------------------------
(11)1949	You Never Know with Women -------------------------------
(12)1949	You're Lonely When You're Dead ----------------------------
(13)1950	Figure It Out for Yourself also The Marijuana Mob ----------------------------
(14)1950	Lay Her Among the Lillies ------------------------------
(15)1951	Strictly for Cash ------------------------
(16)1952	The Fast Buck --------------------------
(17)1952	Double Shuffle -------------------------------
(18)1953	I'll Bury My Dead
(19)1953	This Way for a Shroud
(20)1954	Tiger By the Tail
(21)1954	Safer Dead
(22)1955	You've Got It Coming
(23)1956	There's Always A Price Tag
(24)1957	The Guilty Are Afraid --------------------
(25)1958	Not Safe to Be Free also The Case of the Strangled Starlet ---------------------------
(26)1959	Shock Treatment
(27)1959	The World in My Pocket
(28)1960	What's Better Than Money
(29)1960	Come Easy – Go Easy
(30)1961	A Lotus for Miss Quon
(31)1961	Just Another Sucker
(32)1962	I Would Rather Stay Poor
(33)1962	A Coffin from Hong Kong
(34)1963	One Bright Summer Morning
(35)1963	Tell It to the Birds
(36)1964	The Soft Centre
(37)1965	This Is for Real
(38)1965	The Way the Cookie Crumbles
(39)1966	You Have Yourself a Deal
(40)1966	Cade
(41)1967	Have This One on Me
(42)1967	Well Now – My Pretty
(43)1968	An Ear to the Ground
(44)1968	Believed Violent
(45)1969	The Whiff of Money
(46)1969	The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
(47)1970	Like a Hole in the Head
(48)1970	There's a Hippie on the Highway
(49)1971	Want to Stay Alive?
(50)1971	An Ace Up My Sleeve
(51)1972	Just a Matter of Time
(52)1972	You're Dead Without Money
(53)1973	Have a Change of Scene
(54)1973	Knock, Knock! Who's There?
(55)1974	So What Happens To Me?
(56)1974	Goldfish Have No Hiding Place
(57)1975	Believe This – You'll Believe Anything
(58)1975	The Joker in the Pack
(59)1976	Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead
(60)1977	My Laugh Comes Last
(61)1977	I Hold the Four Aces
(62)1978	Consider Yourself Dead
(63)1979	You Must Be Kidding
(64)1979	A Can of Worms
(65)1980	You Can Say That Again
(66)1980	Try This One for Size
(67)1981	Hand Me a Fig Leaf
(68)1982	Have a Nice Night
(69)1982	We'll Share a Double Funeral
(70)1983	Not My Thing
(71)1984	Hit Them Where It Hurts

James L. Docherty

(72)1941	He Wont Need It Now

Raymond Marshall

(73)1940	Lady, Here's Your Wreath
(74)1944	Just The Way It Is
(75)1945	Blonde's Requiem
(76)1947	Make The Corpse Walk
(77)1947	No Business of Mine
(78)1948	Trusted Like the Fox also Ruthless
(79)1949	The Paw in the Bottle
(80)1950	Mallory
(81)1951	But A Short Time To Live also The Pick-up
(82)1951	Why Pick on Me?
(83)1951	In A Vain Shadow
(84)1952	The Wary Transgressor
(85)1953	The Things Men Do
(86)1954	The Sucker Punch
(87)1954	Mission To Venice
(88)1955	Mission To Siena
(89)1956	You Find Him, I'll Fix Him
(90)1958	Hit And Run

R. Raymond

(91)1946	Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology

Ambrose Grant

(92)1947	More Deadly Than The Male