James Hadley Chase Reading Order

1 book (1996–1996)

2 books (1939–1941)

Start with No Orchids for Miss Blandish / The Villain and the Virgin and read in order.

#	Title
1	No Orchids for Miss Blandish / The Villain and the Virgin 1939Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Doll's Bad News / Twelve C----- and a Woman 1941Buy 🇺🇸

1 book (1955–1955)

#	Title
1	Mission to Siena(As: Raymond Marshall) 1955Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1964–1970)

Start with The Soft Centre, the first of 5 books in the Frank Terrell series.

#	Title
1	The Soft Centre 1964Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Way the Cookie Crumbles 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	Well Now, My Pretty .. 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	Believed Violent 1968Buy 🇺🇸
5	There's a Hippie on the Highway 1970Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1972–1977)

Start with Ace Up My Sleeve and read in order.

#	Title
1	Ace Up My Sleeve 1972Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Joker in the Pack 1975Buy 🇺🇸
3	I Hold the Four Aces 1977Buy 🇺🇸

4 books (1958–1980)

Start with The Whiff of Money, the first of 4 books in the Mark Girland series.

#	Title
1	The Whiff of Money 1958Buy 🇺🇸
2	This Is for Real 1965Buy 🇺🇸
3	Have This One on Me 1967Buy 🇺🇸
4	You Have Yourself a Deal 1980Buy 🇺🇸

67 books (1940–1983)

Start with Lady -- Here's Your Wreath(As: Raymond Marshall), the first of 67 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	Lady -- Here's Your Wreath(As: Raymond Marshall) 1940Buy 🇺🇸
2	The Flesh of the Orchid 1940Buy 🇺🇸
3	Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief 1941Buy 🇺🇸
4	The Dead Stay Dumb / Kiss My Fist! 1941Buy 🇺🇸
5	Eve 1942Buy 🇺🇸
6	Get a Load of This 1942Buy 🇺🇸
7	You Never Know with Women 1942Buy 🇺🇸
8	Just the Way It Is(As: Raymond Marshall) 1944Buy 🇺🇸
9	Miss Shumway Waves a Wand 1944Buy 🇺🇸
10	Blonde's Requiem(As: Raymond Marshall) 1946Buy 🇺🇸
11	I'll Get You for This 1946Buy 🇺🇸
12	Make the Corpse Walk(As: Raymond Marshall) 1946Buy 🇺🇸
13	More Deadly Than the Male 1946Buy 🇺🇸
14	Trusted Like the Fox(As: Raymond Marshall) 1948Buy 🇺🇸
15	The Paw in the Bottle(As: Raymond Marshall) 1949Buy 🇺🇸
16	Why Pick On Me?(As: Raymond Marshall) 1950Buy 🇺🇸
17	But a Short Time to Live(As: Raymond Marshall) 1951Buy 🇺🇸
18	In a Vain Shadow(As: Raymond Marshall) 1951Buy 🇺🇸
19	Strictly for Cash 1951Buy 🇺🇸
20	The Fast Buck 1952Buy 🇺🇸
21	The Wary Transgressor(As: Raymond Marshall) 1952Buy 🇺🇸
22	I'll Bury My Dead 1953Buy 🇺🇸
23	The Things Men Do(As: Raymond Marshall) 1953Buy 🇺🇸
24	Mission to Venice(As: Raymond Marshall) 1954Buy 🇺🇸
25	Safer Dead / Dead Ringer 1954Buy 🇺🇸
26	The Sucker Punch(As: Raymond Marshall) 1954Buy 🇺🇸
27	This Way for a Shroud 1954Buy 🇺🇸
28	Tiger by the Tail 1954Buy 🇺🇸
29	Ruthless(As:Raymond Marshall) 1955Buy 🇺🇸
30	The Pickup(As: Raymond Marshall) 1955Buy 🇺🇸
31	You've Got It Coming 1955Buy 🇺🇸
32	You Find Him, I'll Fix Him 1956Buy 🇺🇸
33	Never Trust a Woman(As:Raymond Marshall) 1957Buy 🇺🇸
34	The Guilty Are Afraid 1957Buy 🇺🇸
35	Hit and Run 1958Buy 🇺🇸
36	The Case of the Strangled Starlet / Not So Safe to Be Free 1958Buy 🇺🇸
37	The World in My Pocket 1959Buy 🇺🇸
38	Come Easy, Go Easy 1960Buy 🇺🇸
39	Just Another Sucker 1960Buy 🇺🇸
40	What's Better Than Money? 1960Buy 🇺🇸
41	A Lotus for Miss Quon 1961Buy 🇺🇸
42	A Coffin from Hong Kong 1962Buy 🇺🇸
43	I Would Rather Stay Poor 1962Buy 🇺🇸
44	One Bright Summer Morning 1963Buy 🇺🇸
45	Cade 1966Buy 🇺🇸
46	Mallory(As: Raymond Marshall) 1969Buy 🇺🇸
47	The Vulture is a Patient Bird 1969Buy 🇺🇸
48	He Won't Need It Now 1972Buy 🇺🇸
49	Just a Matter of Time 1972Buy 🇺🇸
50	Want to Stay Alive? 1972Buy 🇺🇸
51	You're Dead Without Money 1972Buy 🇺🇸
52	Knock, Knock! Who's There? 1973Buy 🇺🇸
53	So What Happens to Me? 1973Buy 🇺🇸
54	Three of Spades 1974Buy 🇺🇸
55	Believe This... You'll Believe Anything 1975Buy 🇺🇸
56	Goldfish Have No Hiding Place 1975Buy 🇺🇸
57	So Soon to Die 1975Buy 🇺🇸
58	Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead 1976Buy 🇺🇸
59	My Laugh Comes Last 1976Buy 🇺🇸
60	Meet Mark Girland 1977Buy 🇺🇸
61	You Must Be Kidding 1978Buy 🇺🇸
62	A Can of Worms 1979Buy 🇺🇸
63	You Can Say That Again 1979Buy 🇺🇸
64	Hand Me a Fig Leaf 1981Buy 🇺🇸
65	Have a Nice Night 1981Buy 🇺🇸
66	We'll Share a Double Funeral 1982Buy 🇺🇸
67	Not My Thing 1983Buy 🇺🇸

6 books (1947–1968)

Start with No Business of Mine(As: Raymond Marshall), the first of 6 books in the Steve Harmas series.

#	Title
1	No Business of Mine(As: Raymond Marshall) 1947Buy 🇺🇸
2	Double Shuffle 1954Buy 🇺🇸
3	There's Always a Price Tag 1956Buy 🇺🇸
4	Shock Treatment 1959Buy 🇺🇸
5	Tell It to the Birds 1963Buy 🇺🇸
6	An Ear to the Ground 1968Buy 🇺🇸

5 books (1971–1984)

Start with Like a Hole in the Head, the first of 5 books in the Tom Lepski series.

#	Title
1	Like a Hole in the Head 1971Buy 🇺🇸
2	Have a Change of Scene 1973Buy 🇺🇸
3	Consider Yourself Dead 1977Buy 🇺🇸
4	Try This One for Size 1980Buy 🇺🇸
5	Hit Them Where It Hurts 1984Buy 🇺🇸

3 books (1949–1950)

Start with You're Lonely When You're Dead and read in order.

#	Title
1	You're Lonely When You're Dead 1949Buy 🇺🇸
2	Figure It Out for Yourself / The Marijuana Mob 1950Buy 🇺🇸
3	Lay Her Among Lilies / Too Dangerous to Be Free 1950Buy 🇺🇸