James Hadley Chase (real name Rene Brabazon Raymond) is the author of more than eighty detective novels. J. H. Chase is a master of the “open” detective story, in which the reader is not confronted with the fact of committing a crime, but step by step participates in its preparation. The twenty-fifth volume of the Collected Works includes the novels “The Silence of the Dead” and “A Lotus for Miss Kwon” .