The Paper Chase

First edition (UK)
Author	Julian Symons
Language	English
Genre	Mystery
Publisher	Collins Crime Club (UK) Harper & Brothers (US)
Publication date	1956
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

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.

• Bargainnier, Earl F. Twelve Englishmen of Mystery. Popular Press, 1984.
• Walsdorf, John J. & Allen, Bonnie J. Julian Symons: A Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 1996.
• Watson, George & Willison, Ian R. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, Volume 4. CUP, 1972.

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