Book description
Cara, Gayda, Pearl: sizzling dames. Travis, Clemensky, Clansing:
desperate men. A set of secret papers. Bring in FBI man Lemmy Caution to
recover the papers, and we have all the ingredients for a fast-moving
story of espionage, deception and double dealing. Lemmy Caution once
again steers his way round the bodies of dead men and beautiful, very
much alive, women to a successful conclusion. 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.
