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 fifteenth volume of the Collected Works includes the following novels: “I Will Bury My Dead Myself” and “Ms. Shumway waves his magic wand."