![]() ![]() It was set in an old house, occupied by officers of a squadron. ![]() The book became a stage play in London's West End, was filmed in 1948 and in 1971 was remade by Robert Aldrich as The Grissom Gang.įrom the war period dates Chase's unusual short story The Mirror in Room 22, in which he tried his hand outside the crime genre. It was the subject of a well-known 1944 essay, "Raffles and Miss Blandish" ( vide Raffles), by George Orwell. The book achieved remarkable popularity and became one of the best-sold books of the decade. He had read about the American gangster Ma Barker and her sons, and with the help of maps and a slang dictionary, he composed in six weeks No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), he decided to try his own hand as a mystery writer. Following the US Great Depression (1929-1939), Prohibition, and the gangster culture during this period, and after reading James M. ![]()
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