James Hadley Chase
Hardcover | Pages: 189 pages Rating: 3.74 | 2058 Users | 181 Reviews
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| Title | : | No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Blandish's Orchids and Dave Fenner #1) |
| Author | : | James Hadley Chase |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 189 pages |
| Published | : | 1998 by Robert Hale (first published 1939) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Thriller. Noir |
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Miss Blandish - innocent, exquisite, vulnerable heiress - is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless hoods who've never tried big-time crime. Foiled by their own vicious ineptitude and the greed of a superior mob, the kidnappers lose their million dollar prize. Blandish, terrified and broken, is now the captive of Ma' Grisson and her sadistic, sexually deviant son Slim.When Dave Fenner was hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knew the odds of finding the girl were against him - the cops were still looking for her three months after the ransom had been paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, had disappeared in to thin air. But what none of them knew was that Riley himself had been wiped out by a rival gang - and the heiress was now in the hands of Ma Grisson and her son Slim, a vicious killer who couldn't stay away from women...especially his beautiful new captive. By the time Fenner began to close in on them, some terrible things had happened to Miss Blandish...
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| Original Title: | No Orchids for Miss Blandish |
| ISBN: | 0709062672 (ISBN13: 9780709062677) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Blandish's Orchids and Dave Fenner #1 |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 2058 Users | 181 ReviewsWeigh Up Appertaining To Books No Orchids for Miss Blandish (Blandish's Orchids and Dave Fenner #1)
This is one seriously grim novel.It's hard to believe that this was written in 1939 by a first time author; it is so incredibly graphic, even compared to the great hard-boiled authors of the time like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, in it's depiction of the gangland behaviour of the time and the minutiae of murder, in addition to which it is a fully accomplished piece of genre writing that you might expect to read from an experienced master.Broken up in to four chapters and they may asThis is a superb crime thriller about a jewelry heist that becomes a murder and kidnapping.I'm not going to give away any more of the plot other than to say it is action-packed and completely involving. I made the mistake of reading this while having lunch, and looked down in horror to see that I had indeed eaten an entire sleeve of Townhouse crackers while caught up in the story. If you like a raw, gritty, no-frills, down and dirty thrill ride...I'm out of cliches - just read the damned thing.
It's probably the best book by James Hadley Chase. A very well written book; unputdownable, and one of the best crime thriller novels of all time. Villain is unforgettable, and so does Miss Blandish. Its one of the Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century.
No Orchids For Miss Blandish: James Hadley Chase's First Novel "I'm ashamed of myself. I'm a person without any background, any character or any faith. Some people could cope with this because they believe in God. I haven't believed in anything except having a good time. She clenched and unclenched her fists, then she looked up; her fixed smile made Fenner feel bad." Miss Blandish to Dave Fenner I'm quite sure that my rating might have been a bit higher had I actually been reading No Orchids
A long time since I am planning to read the books by authors from The Golden Age of Detective Fiction, but till now I have succeeded in reading only two books so far, including this one. And this book was sleeping in my bookshelf for a long time when I finished reading Kafka on the shore coincidently this crossed my sight and then started reading.After have lots of philosophical insights and phenomenological thoughts from Kafka on the shore this book really gave breakNo Orchids For Miss Blandish
The kidnapping of a young and beautiful heiress (is there any other kind?) goes horribly wrong and the bodies start piling up. A raw, gritty and violent novel filled with unsavoury characters. The women don't stand a chance. Hadn't heard of the novel or the author before coming across it on the Guardian 1000 list.
It was quick nice read. Purple entries in this fleshly chiller by the creator of Twelve Chinks and A Woman. This one includes the beneficiary of a few pearls and a fortune, who is the butt of a group war between two crowds and is seized - doped - assaulted because of Slim Grisson. Private dick Fanner discovers her, with a decent arrangement of discharge in the going. Nice shots all around ! đŸ‘Œ
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