James Hadley Chase

The future writer was born in the family of a retired officer, he studied at the royal school in Rochester and later in Calcutta. At the age of 18, Chase leaves his home, and with it his studies. He tried many professions, changed many places of work, and then one day he became an agent-distributor of the books of the Children's Encyclopedia. Later, he will remember these years with irony: “... I had to knock at leas…