| The Paper Chase | |
| Author: | Julian Symons |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Mystery |
| Publisher: | Collins Crime Club (UK) Harper & Brothers (US) |
| Release Date: | 1956 |
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The Paper Chase is a 1956 mystery crime novel by the British writer Julian Symons.[1] It was published in America the following year by Harper & Brothers under the alternative title of Bogue's Fortune.[2] It was reviewed by fellow writers Milward Kennedy in The Guardian and Philip John Stead in the Times Literary Supplement.
A crime writer looking for new material for his second novel, decides to set it in a progressive school and gets a job in one to help his research. Before long a murder takes place and he is drawn into an investigation about an alleged stash of treasure hidden by the school's previous headmaster, the mysterious Johnny Bogue who died in a plane crash more than a decade earlier.