The dead stay dumb by James Hadley Chase (Epub)

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Originally published in 1941. The nightmare tale of the life and death of Dillon, American gangster. From the first to the last page, the ruthlessness of an inhuman killer is set down with stark realism. Chase’s second book.

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⭐ Rene Lodge Barbizon Lodge, who was known by his most frequently used Pseudonym, James Hadley Chase, published 90 books over a 45-year writing career spanning 1939 to 1984. Enamored with American gangster stories, this British writer was personally unfamiliar with the USA, never reaching the US until late in his life and then only briefly. Chase copied the gangster lingo and attitude he read in Chandler and Hammett and in movies.“The Dead Stay Dumb” was his second novel after the blazing success of his debut novel, Orchids. This book took the gangster attitude Chase read and viewed and turned it up a notch or two. Dillon, the main character in this novel, is tough as nails. He doesn’t drink. He doesn’t party. He doesn’t spent time with dames. He has a one-track mind on being the head mob guy and nothing is going to stand in his way. And, make no bones about it, Dillon is mean and vicious and not above beating women if they don’t do as he says.What really works here is the portrait of this ruthless criminal who talks the talk and walks the walk and never hesitated to let loose with his tommy gun. He plays a Bonnie and Clyde act with Myra, whose father he murdered in front of her. Only it’s a Bonnie and Clyde without the tenderness and romance Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty showed. This is a marriage of convenience. Myra, who gets in the most vicious catfight ever recorded, acts like the toughest gun moll imaginable and has hitched her wagon to the toughest hombre in town. There will never be ballads written about Myra and Dillon, but they are a couple to be remembered.Chase does throw a few Antisemitic caricatures in, particularly of the shopkeeper in Platville. But, eighty years ago, attitudes were different and Chase may have just been copying the attitude he thought fit his narrative.All in all, quite an impressive second novel.

⭐ I’m a huge fan of james Hadley Chase; I’ve been reading his novels since I was about fifteen. “The Dead Stay Dumb” is classic Chase. The plot was somewhat predictable but the beauty of Chase’ s work here, and as always, is in his delivery. He has a tendency of pulling you in and making you part of the story, with the responsibility of observing, sympathizing, and sometimes empathizing. The Dead Stay Dumb, is getting three stars from me because it lacks the twists and turns that I am accustomed to in Chase’ s work; but nonetheless, a very rivetting and suspenseful read.

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