biography
| name: |
Chase, James Hadley
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pseudonym of René Raymond
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–85)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He started the vogue for tough realism in gangster stories in the UK with his No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939), the first of a number in similar vein. |
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