Chases first novel, set in and around Kansas City, was exceedingly popular when it first came out. Based on Ma Barkers gang, and inspired by Faulkners Sanctuary: Miss Blandish – innocent, exquisite, vulnerable heiress – is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless hoods whove never tried big-time crime. Foiled by their own vicious ineptitude and the greed of a superior mob, the kidnappers lose their million dollar prize. Blandish, terrified and broken, is now the captive of Ma “Grisson” and her sadistic, sexually deviant son Slim.
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