Book description
Blood's runnin' down my face from where this guy's just bust me, my
nosefeels like it's split in half. Then this dame gets up an' strolls
over to me - I reckon I am not lookin' quite so good. She says: 'Well
for cryin' out loud.'
Is this my big day or is it?
She stands lookin' at me, sippin' champagne. 'So you're a big
"G" man,' she says. 'Well, personally, if you hadn't got a
lot comin' to you I would take a bust at you myself, you lousy,
crawlin', gum-shoein' dick. Have a drop of liquor, big boy.'
She pours the contents of her glass over my face. It stings like
hell, but I'm tellin' you it was good liquor.
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney was born in
Whitechapel in the East End of London. After serving as a lieutenant
during the First World War, he worked as a police reporter and
freelance investigator until he found success with his first Lemmy
Caution novel. In his lifetime Cheyney was a prolific and wildly
successful author, selling, in 1946 alone, over 1. 5 million copies of
his books. His work was also enormously popular in France, and
inspired Jean-Luc Godard's character of the same name in his dystopian
sci-fi film Alphaville. The master of British noir, in Lemmy Caution
Peter Cheyney created the blueprint for the tough-talking,
hard-drinking pulp fiction detective.
