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When Dave Fenner was hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he
knew the on 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...
This is a newly revised edition of the famous crime novel NO
ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH. For the first time this edition combines
the original text from 1939 with the revisions made by the author
in 1961. The novel is now widely regarded as one of the top
thrillers of the last century. When it was originally published it
pushed the social boundaries of the time through its relentless
exploration of crime and sexual exploitation. Unlike most crime
novels of that era, the characters are rich, deeply realized
portraits of those who lived on the fringes of society during the
Great Depression -- namely the gangsters, their women, and the men
who hunted them. The novel broke sales records when published and
has gone onto to sell over four million copies worldwide.
Historically important, such literary greats as George Orwell and
Graham Greene instantly recognized its merits. In a lengthy essay
that securely placed NO ORCHIDS in an honored position in crime
fiction, George Orwell wrote that, "In a book like NO ORCHIDS one
is not, as in the old-style crime story, simply escaping from dull
reality into an imaginary world of action. One's escape is
essentially into cruelty and sexual perversion...a brilliant piece
of writing, with hardly a wasted word or a jarring note anywhere."
Set in the heartland of America during hard times, the story
reveals itself along the back roads, roadside diners and street
corners of a jaded, threadbare society - a truly unnerving novel
updated for a new generation of readers ready to discover the world
of James Hadley Chase.
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