Book description
'Some wise guy - Confucius or somebody - said there was nothin' like
the truth, which is a thing that I believe in - sometimes. Anyhow, I am
goin' to try this nothin' but the truth stuff on this dame I spoke to.
What can I lose, anyway?' When Julia Wayles is kidnapped in the US and
taken to England, FBI agent Lemmy Caution finds himself caught up in a
tangled web of intrigue and international espionage. Julia is being held
by two American mobsters, who may or may not be who they say they are.
And as usual it's the dames in the story who distract Lemmy from
business. 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.
