Order of James Hadley Chase Books
James Hadley Chase (1906-1985) was an English author of mystery, suspense and romance novels. He wrote the Steve Harmas, Frank Terrell and Mark Girland series. Chase was born to a veterinary surgeon and Indian Army colonel who intended him to pursue science. At 18, he had other plans and worked a number of different jobs, such as a children’s encyclopedia salesman, a salesman in a bookshop and an executive for a book wholesaler. After that, he turned to writing and embarked on a very prolific career writing novels. Chase enjoyed photography, reading and listening to classical music. He was married to Sylvia Ray for 53 years and had a son.
James Hadley Chase began his career as a novelist in 1939 with the novels The Dead Stay Dumb and No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Below is a list of James Hadley Chase’s books in order of when they were first released:
Publication Order of Dave Fenner Books
| No Orchids for Miss Blandish / The Villain and the Virgin | (1939) |    |
| The Doll's Bad News / Twelve C----- and a Woman | (1941) | |
Publication Order of Vic Malloy Books
| You're Lonely When You're Dead | (1949) | |
| Figure It Out for Yourself / The Marijuana Mob | (1950) | |
| Lay Her Among Lilies / Too Dangerous to Be Free | (1950) | |
Publication Order of Steve Harmas Books
| No Business of Mine | (1947) | |
| Double Shuffle | (1954) | |
| There's Always a Price Tag | (1956) | |
| Shock Treatment | (1959) | |
| Tell It to the Birds | (1963) | |
| An Ear to the Ground | (1968) | |
Publication Order of Frank Terrell Books
| The Soft Centre | (1964) | |
| The Way the Cookie Crumbles | (1965) | |
| Well Now, My Pretty .. | (1967) | |
| Believed Violent | (1968) | |
| There's a Hippie on the Highway | (1970) | |
Publication Order of Mark Girland Books
| The Whiff of Money | (1958) | |
| This Is for Real | (1965) | |
| Have This One on Me | (1967) | |
| You Have Yourself a Deal | (1980) | |
Publication Order of Helga Rolfe Books
| Ace Up My Sleeve | (1972) | |
| The Joker in the Pack | (1975) | |
| I Hold the Four Aces | (1977) | |
Publication Order of Don Micklem Books
(as Raymond Marshall)
| Mission to Siena | (1955) | |
Publication Order of Tom Lepski Books
| Like a Hole in the Head | (1971) | |
| Have a Change of Scene | (1973) | |
| Consider Yourself Dead | (1977) | |
| Try This One for Size | (1980) | |
| Hit Them Where It Hurts | (1984) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Flesh of the Orchid | (1940) | |
| Lady -- Here's Your Wreath | (1940) | |
| The Dead Stay Dumb / Kiss My Fist! | (1941) | |
| Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief | (1941) | |
| Get a Load of This | (1942) | |
| You Never Know with Women | (1942) | |
| Eve | (1942) | |
| Just the Way It Is | (1944) | |
| Miss Shumway Waves a Wand | (1944) | |
| Make the Corpse Walk | (1946) | |
| I'll Get You for This | (1946) | |
| Blonde's Requiem | (1946) | |
| More Deadly Than the Male | (1946) | |
| Trusted Like the Fox | (1948) | |
| The Paw in the Bottle | (1949) | |
| Why Pick On Me? | (1950) | |
| In a Vain Shadow | (1951) | |
| But a Short Time to Live | (1951) | |
| Strictly for Cash | (1951) | |
| The Fast Buck | (1952) | |
| The Wary Transgressor | (1952) | |
| I'll Bury My Dead | (1953) | |
| The Things Men Do | (1953) | |
| Safer Dead / Dead Ringer | (1954) | |
| Mission to Venice | (1954) | |
| Tiger by the Tail | (1954) | |
| The Sucker Punch | (1954) | |
| This Way for a Shroud | (1954) | |
| You've Got It Coming | (1955) | |
| The Pickup | (1955) | |
| Ruthless | (1955) | |
| You Find Him, I'll Fix Him | (1956) | |
| The Guilty Are Afraid | (1957) | |
| Never Trust a Woman | (1957) | |
| Hit and Run | (1958) | |
| The Case of the Strangled Starlet / Not So Safe to Be Free | (1958) | |
| The World in My Pocket | (1959) | |
| Just Another Sucker | (1960) | |
| Come Easy, Go Easy | (1960) | |
| What's Better Than Money? | (1960) | |
| A Lotus for Miss Quon | (1961) | |
| I Would Rather Stay Poor | (1962) | |
| A Coffin from Hong Kong | (1962) | |
| One Bright Summer Morning | (1963) | |
| Cade | (1966) | |
| The Vulture is a Patient Bird | (1969) | |
| Mallory | (1969) | |
| He Won't Need It Now | (1972) | |
| Just a Matter of Time | (1972) | |
| Want to Stay Alive? | (1972) | |
| You're Dead Without Money | (1972) | |
| Knock, Knock! Who's There? | (1973) | |
| So What Happens to Me? | (1973) | |
| Three of Spades | (1974) | |
| Believe This... You'll Believe Anything | (1975) | |
| Goldfish Have No Hiding Place | (1975) | |
| So Soon to Die | (1975) | |
| Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead | (1976) | |
| My Laugh Comes Last | (1976) | |
| Meet Mark Girland | (1977) | |
| You Must Be Kidding | (1978) | |
| A Can of Worms | (1979) | |
| You Can Say That Again | (1979) | |
| Have a Nice Night | (1981) | |
| Hand Me a Fig Leaf | (1981) | |
| We'll Share a Double Funeral | (1982) | |
| Not My Thing | (1983) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories | (1996) | |
| Slipstream: A Royal Air Force Anthology | (2020) | |
Notes: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was alternately titled The Villain and the Virgin. Twelve C***** and a Woman was also known as The Doll’s Bad News. Figure It Out for Yourself was also titled The Marijuana Mob. Lay Her Among the Lilies is also known as Too Dangerous to Be Free. The Dead Stay Dumb was also published as Kiss My Fist!. Not Safe to Be Free was also titled The Case of the Strangled Starlet. Safer Dead was also known as Dead Ringer.
He Won’t Need It Now was written as James L. Dochery. More Deadly Than the Male was published under the pen name of Ambrose Grant. Slipstream was edited using his real name of Rene Raymond. The novels Lady, Here’s Your Wreath, Just the Way It Is, Blonde’s Requiem, Make the Corpse Walk, No Business of Mine, Trusted Like the Fox, The Paw in the Bottle, Mallory, But a Short Time to Live, In a Vain Shadow, Why Pick On Me?, The Wary Transgressor, The Things Men Do, Mission to Venice, The Sucker Punch and Mission to Siena were originally published using the pseudonym of Raymond Marshall. All were later re-published as by James Hadley Chase.
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