One Bright Summer Morning

James Hadley Chase

Jun 2013 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Successful dramatist Victor Dermott rents an isolated ranch-house in the Nevada Desert. For two months all is ideal, then one bright summer morning he wakes to find his dog, his guns, his servant vanished - and the telephone dead.

The terror has begun ...

'Agonising tension sustained throughout a first-rate story' Evening Standard

Ratings and reviews

My first book was coffins from Hongkong second was Weary transgresor and third was one bright...Chase is wonderful writer and good storyteller. once you start reading from first page the grip is so magnetic that you will finished it and then allow the book on shelf to rest.Such is the magic of chase.

Very natural and realistic with tours and detours throughout, keeps u fixed till the very last word!

Ma first book.....first impression is the best impression !

About the author

Born René Brabazon Raymond in London, the son of a British colonel in the Indian Army, James Hadley Chase was educated at King's School in Rochester, Kent, and left home at the age of 18. He initially worked in book sales until, inspired by the rise of gangster culture during the Depression and by reading James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, he wrote his first novel, No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Despite the American setting of many of his novels, Chase (like Peter Cheyney, another hugely successful British noir writer) never lived there, writing with the aid of maps and a slang dictionary. He had phenomenal success with the novel, which continued unabated throughout his entire career, spanning 45 years and nearly 90 novels. His work was published in dozens of languages and over thirty titles were adapted for film. He served in the RAF during World War II, where he also edited the RAF Journal. In 1956 he moved to France with his wife and son; they later moved to Switzerland, where Chase lived until his death in 1985.