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Slim Callaghan #2
Dangerous Curves
Vivacious Mrs. Riverton has hired Slim to find her missing stepson, whom she admits she hates.
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1939
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About the author
Peter Cheyney
123 books30 followersBorn Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney, he trained as a lawyer before getting tired of legal office work and joining the Army. He fought at the second Battle of the Somme in World War I and was wounded but when he returned to England he wrote songs, poems and short stories for various newspapers and magazines and used many pseudonyms.
He also turned his hand to journalism, was a newspaper editor and also owned a detective agency, Cheyney Research Investigations.
His first published novel was This Man Is Dangerous and this began his prolific novel writing career. Thereafter he averaged two mystery novels a year with his best known characters being Slim Callaghan and Lemmy Caution and he became one of the best known and most successful of British crime novelists. His success also brought with it financial rewards and he was recognised as one of the richest authors of the time.
There have been many film versions of his works, which helped spread his popularity, particularly to the United States.
His life-style, one of hard-living, much like his characters, and hard work eventually took their toll and he died at age 55. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Michael Harrison published a biography in 1954 entitled Peter Cheyney Prince of Hokum and there have been a number of biographical essays over the years.
Gerry Wolstenholme
December 2010
He also turned his hand to journalism, was a newspaper editor and also owned a detective agency, Cheyney Research Investigations.
His first published novel was This Man Is Dangerous and this began his prolific novel writing career. Thereafter he averaged two mystery novels a year with his best known characters being Slim Callaghan and Lemmy Caution and he became one of the best known and most successful of British crime novelists. His success also brought with it financial rewards and he was recognised as one of the richest authors of the time.
There have been many film versions of his works, which helped spread his popularity, particularly to the United States.
His life-style, one of hard-living, much like his characters, and hard work eventually took their toll and he died at age 55. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.
Michael Harrison published a biography in 1954 entitled Peter Cheyney Prince of Hokum and there have been a number of biographical essays over the years.
Gerry Wolstenholme
December 2010
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May 3, 2011
One of my favorite dark rainy night reads. Love Cheyney's style. It's the British version of hard-boiled detectives and quite a lot of fun. Always makes me think I need a secretary.
October 17, 2019
Mrs Riverton is one of those attractive wealthy widows that only appear in pulp detective stories. She hires Slim Callaghan to find her missing stepson who is being led, via drugs and gambling, towards financial ruin. Callaghan's devil-may-care-Philip Marlowe-with-a-Home-Counties-accent routine is rather slick, and the whole thing rattles along at a great speed, ending with a degree of satisfaction for all parties as we pretty much knew it would. Great fun though.
January 1, 2026
Pongamos que es un predecesor de James Bond. La misma nacionalidad británica, sus detectives nunca comen ni apenas duermen solo fuman , beben y el sexo está algo más contenido porque serían los años 1940-50.
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