The Flesh of the Orchid
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James Hadley Chase
James Hadley Chase is a pseudonym for British author Rene Brabazon Raymond (December 24, 1906 — February 6, 1985) who also wrote under the names James L. Docherty, Ambrose Grant, and Raymond Marshall.
Chase, a London-born son of a British colonel serving in the colonial Indian Army who intended his...
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