The flesh of the orchid is a 1948 thriller novel by british author james hadley chase it is a sequel to the book no orchids for miss blandish by the same author. La chair de lorchidee 1h 50min drama thriller 29 january 1975 france a disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money the game keeper her guardian tries to rape her but she escapes in her flight she meets a man also running . The flesh of the orchid is a pulse pounding suspense novel thats reminiscent of cornell woolrichs legendary classics like phantom lady and the bride wore black with none of woolrichs cloying sentimentality james hadley chase also takes a more hard boiled approach in his writing. The heiress claire charlotte rampling in this movie is the daughter of the miss blandish of the film no orchids for miss blandish she has been raised under the unsympathetic eye of her aunt