Del 361 i serien Murder Room

More Deadly than the Male

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

349 kr

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George Fraser, a lonely, timid fellow, lives in a dream world of gangsters, gunfights and beautiful women. He begins to imagine himself as the toughest gangster of them all to bolster up his feeling of inferiority. But George boasts once too often - and to the wrong person.From that moment on, harmless George is caught up in a deadly net of intrigue, and finds himself committing the deadliest act of all ...'An intelligent and harshly revealing piece of work with not a little serious penetration and power' The Times

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Utgivningsdatum2013-02-28
Mått129 x 198 x 23 mm
Vikt41 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMurder Room
Antal sidor240
FörlagThe Murder Room
ISBN9781471903311

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Born René 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. He initially worked in book sales until, inspired by the rise of gangster culture during the Depression and by reading James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. 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. He had phenomenal success with the novel, which continued unabated throughout his entire career, spanning 45 years and nearly 90 novels. His work was published in dozens of languages and over thirty titles were adapted for film. He served in the RAF during World War II, where he also edited the RAF Journal. In 1956 he moved to France with his wife and son; they later moved to Switzerland, where Chase lived until his death in 1985.