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No Orchids for Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 9781534894419 Books
After reading the fierce first chapter, I was totally surprised to discover that this book was written in 1938! The novel is just as dark, violent, and explicit as anything written today, and I enjoyed every page of it! I can see why the book was such a hit and such a controversy at the same time when it was released. It wasn't until after I finished the first chapter of the kindle edition, that I realized that I was reading a revised version of the novel, "updated" by the author for more modern audiences in the mid-60's. After skimming through passages from the original text, I was shocked to find out that the language and some of the content was softened tremendously! When I read hard-boiled noir, I don't want it soft, I want it as hard as can be! So I paused my reading to track down the only edition that I could find with the original text, and that was this paperback edition, the one published by Bruins Crimeworks.Described as a "shocking tale of vile, ruthless, gangsterism," it tells the story of the kidnapping and ransoming of the beautiful, innocent, unnamed daughter of millionaire John Blandish. The girl ends up in the hands of the infamous old lady Ma Grissom, and her gang of thieves and killers, including her psychotic son and knife-man Slim Grissom. Months later, the girl has still not been found and her father hires private dick Dave Fenner to find out what happened to her. Her father partly hopes she is dead, because if she isn't, one can only imagine what the Grissom gang has been doing to poor Miss Blandish.
The novel is well-plotted, fast-paced and never boring, with raw and lurid details and vivid characters in the villainous gangsters. My jaw definitely dropped a few times at the horror of the story and the situation that Miss Blandish was in, being a rich girl that has always been protected by the terrors of the world, being suddenly thrust into something that might ruin her innocence completely. And that ending? Jeez...stuck in my head for days...
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish James Hadley Chase 9781534894419 Books Reviews
James Hadley Chase fell in love with American crime novels while a young man in England, during the 1930s, so he started writing them himself, in imitation of Hammet and James M. Cain. He read books on American slang, consulted street maps of Chicago or wherever, and just did it. American critics and readers never quite took to him and I've never understood why. He's an excellent writer, who went on to write more than eighty books in a very long and successful career, many of them set in countries other than the US. George Orwell admired his work, to name just one influential critic. This is the only one of his American books I've read and I defy anyone to find a sentence in it that could prove the author was foreign. It is, quite simply, an excellent example of American noir fiction. The fact that the author was not American is a trivial detail. I read his "A Lotus for Miss Quon," set in Vietnam in 1960 and it is a very good thriller--concise, fast paced, vivid characters. His birth name was Rene Raymond, and he was one tough Brit. During the second world war he joined the Royal Air Force and rose to the rank of squadron commander. I'll be reading more of his work.
"No Orchids for Miss Blandish" is a powerful and vivid crime noir novel written in 1939 by James Hadley Chase. It is remarkable for its time in its frank and unsentimental treatment of sexuality, violence and the gangster culture that had been allowed to take root and flourish in America. It's also remarkable because it's a great American crime novel...written by an Englishman who had learned of gang culture and its popularity in American fiction through newspaper accounts, which gave him stories of Ma Barker and John Dillinger, and his experience in the book industry, which let him know what was popular with the reading public; indeed, except for a few lapses in vocabulary, one would not guess Chase was an Englishman. And, finally, "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" is remarkable because it was Chase's first novel, written over a three-month period.
Briefly, a petty crook learns that Miss Blandish (daughter of a multimillionaire, back when a million was worth something) and her fiance are going to visit a particular roadhouse and sees it as the perfect opportunity to relieve her of her $50,000 diamond necklace. Things go wrong, the fiance is killed, and the crook and his two cohorts take her with them. Things go from bad to worse for Miss Blandish when they have a chance encounter with the Grissom Gang, her captors are murdered, and she becomes their prisoner, a million-dollar kidnap victim. Just when Miss Blandish thinks things can't get any worse, Slim Grissom, Ma Grissom's simple-minded sociopathic knife-wielding son, discovers that girls are different than boys, and takes a shine to their captive, psycho puppy love. The remainder of the book not only details the efforts to recover the kidnapped girl, but her spiral into a drug-induced submissive state, and the activities and machinations of all the peripheral characters.
The story is somewhat derivative of other fiction of the time, but his lack of sentimentality and romanticism sets "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" apart from other efforts. The book was shocking to English readers, and no less so to Americans when it was published here, though to modern readers, accustomed to soft-porn romance novels from the magazine aisle of the local supermarket, it will seem that Chase turns his narrative eye aside whenever the action becomes too carnal. And, also, the situation will not be so alien to modern readers as it was to readers of the late Thirties, not with our pop-psychology knowledge of Stockholm Syndrome and the frequent news reports of the Nice Guy Next Door who, it has been discovered, has kept sex slaves hidden in his house for years. Still, despite our callousness and jaded sensibilities, the story yet retains a visceral power to surprise, shock and engage the modern reader. It is well worth finding.
After reading the fierce first chapter, I was totally surprised to discover that this book was written in 1938! The novel is just as dark, violent, and explicit as anything written today, and I enjoyed every page of it! I can see why the book was such a hit and such a controversy at the same time when it was released. It wasn't until after I finished the first chapter of the kindle edition, that I realized that I was reading a revised version of the novel, "updated" by the author for more modern audiences in the mid-60's. After skimming through passages from the original text, I was shocked to find out that the language and some of the content was softened tremendously! When I read hard-boiled noir, I don't want it soft, I want it as hard as can be! So I paused my reading to track down the only edition that I could find with the original text, and that was this paperback edition, the one published by Bruins Crimeworks.
Described as a "shocking tale of vile, ruthless, gangsterism," it tells the story of the kidnapping and ransoming of the beautiful, innocent, unnamed daughter of millionaire John Blandish. The girl ends up in the hands of the infamous old lady Ma Grissom, and her gang of thieves and killers, including her psychotic son and knife-man Slim Grissom. Months later, the girl has still not been found and her father hires private dick Dave Fenner to find out what happened to her. Her father partly hopes she is dead, because if she isn't, one can only imagine what the Grissom gang has been doing to poor Miss Blandish.
The novel is well-plotted, fast-paced and never boring, with raw and lurid details and vivid characters in the villainous gangsters. My jaw definitely dropped a few times at the horror of the story and the situation that Miss Blandish was in, being a rich girl that has always been protected by the terrors of the world, being suddenly thrust into something that might ruin her innocence completely. And that ending? Jeez...stuck in my head for days...
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