Gerçek adıyla "René Brabazon Raymond" olarak Londra'da doğdu. Rochester'de okula gitti. Okuduktan sonra çocuk ansiklopedileri satmak için ülkeyi dolaştı. O sırada Amerikan romanları okumaya başladı, özellikle James M. Cain. Bu kitaplardan etkilenerek, Amerika'yı hiç görmeden, Amerika'da geçen bir roman yazdı. 1939 yılında "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" adıyla yayınlanan kitap, anında en iyi satanların arasına girdi. Özellikle 2. Dünya Savaşı'nda bulunan askerler arasında çok tutuldu. Chase, seksene yakın kitap yazdı. Bunlardan birçoğu filme de çekildi. 1985 yılında vefat etti.
Dave Fenner Serisi
1939 No Orchids for Miss Blandish / The Villain And the Virgin (Halk Düşmanı)
1940 The Doll's Bad News / Twelve Chinks and a Woman (Tehlikeli Adam)
Vic Malloy Serisi
1949 You're Lonely When You're Dead (Ölürken Yalnız Olacaksın)
1950 Figure It Out for Yourself / The Marijuana Mob (Bu Kurşun Sana)
1950 Lay Her Among the Lilies / Too Dangerous to Be Free (Katil Aramızda)
Steve Harmas Serisi
1952 The Double Shuffle
1956 There's Always a Price Tag
1959 Shock Treatment
1963 Tell It to the Birds (Güller Kan Rengiydi)
1968 An Ear to the Ground (Kanlı Aşk)
Frank Terrell Serisi
1964 The Soft Centre
1965 The Way the Cookie Crumbles (Bodur Cani)
1967 Well Now, My Pretty (Okey Yavrum)
1968 Believed Violent
1970 There's a Hippie On the Highway
Mark Girland Serisi
1965 This Is for Real
1966 You Have Yourself a Deal
1967 Have This One On Me
1969 The Whiff of Money
Helga Rolfe Serisi
1971 An Ace Up My Sleeve
1975 The Joker in the Pack
1977 I Hold the Four Aces
Romanlar
1939 The Dead Stay Dumb / Kiss My Fist! (Öldüresiye)
1939 He Won't Need It Now (James L Dochery ismiyle)
1940 Lady, Here's Your Wreath (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1941 Get a Load of This
1941 Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief
1944 Just the Way It Is (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1944 Miss Shumway Waves a Wand
1945 Eve (Eva Cinayet Meleği)
1946 Blonde's Requiem (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1946 I'll Get You for This (Kurşun Yağmuru / Onikinci Kurşun)
1946 Make the Corpse Walk (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1946 More Deadly Than the Male (Ambrose Grant ismiyle)
1947 No Business of Mine (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1948 The Flesh of the Orchid (Son Darbe)
1948 Trusted Like the Fox (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1949 The Paw in the Bottle (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1949 You Never Know with Women
1950 Mallory (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1951 But a Short Time to Live (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1951 In a Vain Shadow (Uğursuz Pardesü) (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1951 Strictly for Cash (Vahşi Darbe)
1951 Why Pick On Me?(Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1952 The Wary Transgressor (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1953 I'll Bury My Dead
1953 The Things Men Do (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1953 This Way for a Shroud
1954 Mission to Venice (Casuslar Savaşı) (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1954 Safer Dead / Dead Ringer
1954 The Sucker Punch (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1954 Tiger By the Tail (Son Darbe)
1955 Mission to Siena (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1955 The Pickup (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1955 Ruthless (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1955 You've Got It Coming
1956 You Find Him, I'll Fix Him (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1957 The Guilty Are Afraid (Suçlular Korkak Olur)
1957 Never Trust a Woman (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1958 Hit and Run (Vurdu ve Kaçtı) (Raymond Marshall ismiyle)
1958 Not Safe to Be Free / The Case of the Strangled Starlet (Festivalde Cinayet)
1959 The World in My Pocket
1960 Come Easy, Go Easy
1960 What's Better Than Money? (Paradan Tatlı Ne Var?)
1961 Just Another Sucker
1961 A Lotus for Miss Quon (Aşk ve Ölüm)
1962 A Coffin from Hong Kong
1962 I Would Rather Stay Poor (Kibar Katil / Ecel Bankası)
1963 One Bright Summer Morning (Karanlık Bir Yaz Sabahı)
1966 Cade
1969 The Vulture Is a Patient Bird
1970 Like a Hole in the Head
1970 Want to Stay Alive?
1972 Just a Matter of Time
1972 You're Dead Without Money
1973 Have a Change of Scene
1973 Knock, Knock! Who's There?
1974 Three of Spades
1974 So What Happens to Me?
1974 Goldfish Have No Hiding Place
1975 So Soon To Die
1975 Believe This, You'll Believe Anything
1976 Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead
1977 Meet Mark Girland
1977 My Laugh Comes Last
1978 Consider Yourself Dead
1979 You Must Be Kidding
1979 A Can of Worms
1980 You Can Say That Again
1980 Try This One for Size
1981 Hand Me a Fig Leaf
1982 Have a Nice Night
1982 We'll Share a Double Funeral
1983 Not My Thing
1985 Hit Them Where It Hurts