Chase's novel *More Deadly Than the Male* (1946) was
commissioned by Graham Greene for Eyre and Spootiswoode, the
publishing house where Greene worked as an editor. The book
was published under the pseudonym of Ambrose Grant, and it's
more than a passing conjecture that Green collaborated
extensively with Chase in writing it. Moreover, it is one of
the very few Chase's books with a London location. IT is one
of Chase's best, in my opinion. Chase and Greene were close
friends for forty years, but they succeeded in keeping their
friendship completely unknown to everybody. It had to do, I
think, with Greene's (and maybe Chase's) involvement in
British Secret Service. They shared many economic interests
(even to the point of being robbed of a huge part of their
bank savings by one financial advisor they had in common) and
lived for a long time in the same Swiss village where they
both died (Chase in 1985, Greene in 1991). A fascinating
account of the Chase-Greene friendship can be found in
W.J.West's *The Quest for Graham Greene* (Weidenfeld &
Nicholson, 1997).
Luca
Luca Conti
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