A Surprise in Store! By Ann Evans
James Haley Chase You just never know where your random blogging is going to lead you. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post on the subject of authors who had inspired me to write. I wrote about crime thriller writer, James Hadley Chase (1906-1985). He was a prolific writer, known as the Thriller King of Europe in his hayday. He wrote around 90 crime novels, with half of them being made into films. I wasn't aware of any of this however when I first picked up one of his novels as a young teenager – probably too young to be reading his style of books! I was probably around 13 or 14, maybe even younger, when my local librarian decided I was old enough to venture out of the children’s section of the library into the big grown up world of adult books. As I’d always go to the library with my mum, who was a big Agatha Christie fan, I browsed the crime shelves just as she did. But I have to admit, Agatha Christie didn’t really grab me, but by c...