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Remake of "Sanctuary" by William Faulkner, this first novel contains all the ingredients that will make this one of the most popular author of the famous "Black Series" version Marcel Duhamel: cruel criminals and psychopaths, angelic women or femmes fatales (here heroin pass from one to the other), constant drama, writing "Remington" pushed to the limit - little or no descriptions, a few lines and an atmosphere is created ...
"No Orchids for Miss Gang" will be a sequel, very successful: "The Flesh of the Orchid."
Chase still wrote a few hits like "Eva" (very Hollywood), "Miss Rough Magic" (very funny) or "Beware girls" (very dark).
Then he galvaudera gradually his talent - he wrote 91 novels at least, since it is the number of titles translated into French!
Tip: read his very first books published in "Black Series" and the very first published in the collection "Black Square".