No Orchids for Miss Blandish

from smik

James Hadley Chase was an English writer born René Lodge Brabazon Raymond and well known by various pseudonyms, including James Hadley Chase, James L. Docherty, Raymond Marshall, R. Raymond, and Ambrose Grant. See Wikipedia for more details. NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH (publ. 1939) is set in the...

from DeltaQueen50

No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase was originally published in 1939. This is a very dark crime story with some of the most vicious, depraved criminals I have ever read about. This is a very American book with it's mid-west setting but surprisingly the author was British. Apparentl...

from Shirezu

This is a dark book. Full of violence this book is as grim as they come. Not as explicit as other writers I think it's actually made worse by the fact that everything is hinted at, kept just off-screen, so your mind has to fill in the horrible blanks. I started this book late last night and as so...

from donlazaro

After reading Orwell's essay "Raffles and Miss Blandish," I purchased and read this vintage curiosity and was surprised that Orwell would call it "brilliant" (he did, and not in a tone of sarcasm) or, for that matter, bother to write anything at all about this tawdry, relentlessly depressing, alb...

from Philip_Lee

I heard everyone was reading bootleg copies of this in air raid shelters during the Blitz, so I sought it out. But when I finally read it, I was a bit disappointed; and not just because it's rather tame, more so because I don't think it compares with the American books it was supposed to imitate....