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If you go to the pleece or try any funny bisness little Cecilia will get her throte cut so now you know.
Slim Callaghan, the British answer to an American hard boiled private detective, is arguably Peter Cheyney's greatest creation. Callaghan has delighted readers from his first appearance in 1938, and all his adventures are now happily back in print.
No investigation is too audacious for Callaghan, who finds time, in Calling Mr. Callaghan and between...
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Quayle lived, mentally, as far ahead as possible, mainly because the people who were dependent upon him lived from moment to moment, sometimes dying even more suddenly than that.
The sinister business of counter-espionage is played out by an array of magnificent characters. Quayle, spy master, is a blend of wisdom and administrative genius. He seemingly has the ability to live without sleep, wine or women, Shaun O'Mara, who loves all those things,...
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"It's about that dame. I thought I oughta tell you. Somebody's bumped her."
It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.
Callaghan knows Gringall has something up his sleeve. And when, backstage, Doria asks him to take on a job - to find her boyfriend Lionel Wilbery, a poet with the wrong friends and...
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"Isn't life wonderful! Everybody else gets the fun and I carry the spades and quicklime."
Quayle is the master of a British spy ring in World War II. He is unprepared to deal with tough guy Foden, a man newly arrived in London from Morocco armed with information about German troop movements. This intelligence could change the course of the war - but is Foden the patriot he seems, or something else entirely?
Quayle leads his agents through the twists...
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Nikolls held out two glasses.
'Which is it goin' to be?' he said. 'Seltzer or the hair of the dog?'
Callaghan took the whisky.
Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case - even for him. A Mrs. Paula Denys says she paid a man to steal the priceless Denys Coronet from her husband's safe. Now the thief won't hand over the goods and is attempting to blackmail her.
Callaghan solves the problem for his client but, too late,...
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All sorts and conditions of ladies and gentlemen found their way into the expensively furnished, well-appointed Ventura Club. You could get anything you liked there if you knew how to ask for it.
Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels - heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for £100,000 - have disappeared.
With his assistant, Windemere Nikolls, he discovers some startling facts...
7) Dark Duet
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Kane looked at her appreciatively. 'I don't know whether anybody's ever told you, but you've got the swellest pair of legs I've ever seen,' he said. Valetta looked at him sideways along her dark eyelashes. He thought she was very beautiful; her mouth delicate, sensitive, almost tremulous. He could look at it for hours on end. It was that sort of mouth . . .
'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English...
8) Dark Hero
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"Don't worry... we're here. We're the British."
Tough and hard as the Ozarks that bred him, Rene Berg fought his way up through the gangs of Chicago during the days of prohibition. Then, at the peak of his power and success, he was framed by a beautiful woman and forced to flee for his life.
How this dashing, steel-nerved gunman turns up years later as the 'dark hero' of the Norwegian Underground makes a story that will hold you spellbound. Thrill...
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Effie said: 'You're expecting trouble?' She felt scared.
Callaghan said: 'I've been expecting trouble all my life, Effie, and I usually get it.'
Slim Callaghan, of Callaghan Investigations, the world-famous detective and connoisseur of women, is at work again. Ruthless, tough, cynical, Slim was just getting wise to the game of Nicky Starata, an overly smooth poker player, when he got involved in the mysterious Admiral Gardell case.
No one asked Slim...
10) Can Ladies Kill?
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To The Director,Bureau of Investigation,U.S. Department of Justice, Washington.
Dear Sir-After a great deal of thought I have finally decided to write to you. This letter probably sounds mysterious, but at the moment, mystery is necessary.
During the last two or three months I have, by accident, obtained knowledge of certain matters which, I believe, should properly be dealt with by your department. These criminal matters are of a federal nature....
11) Dark Interlude
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For five years he had tortured, mutilated and put to death British secret agents. Now the war was over, only one execution remained - his.
Shaun Aloysius O'Mara, intelligence agent for the British 'second bureau', has been ordered by his superiors to go to Paris to obtain information that will lead to the capture of the lone survivor of the Nazi espionage system.
So when Shaun arrives in Paris he becomes a crude and shiftless drunkard and entangles...
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In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire while she is in England. And their plot must not only account for the actual luring of the victim into the snare and the collection of the ransom money, but also evade interference from the English police and rival gangs.
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Callaghan was five feet ten and thin. He had sevenpence halfpenny and a heavy smoker's cough. His arms were a little too long for his height and his face was surprising.
Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father's money. But when the old man is murdered, the only suspect with no alibi and a giant motive is Cynthis.
Slim always played his cases the way they came, but it turned out the Meraulton...
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I'll Say She Does! is the result of a promise I made to two brave officers in the Australian Forces. Lieut.-Commander Al Palmer, D.S.C., and Major Brooke Moore. I told them I would do a Lemmy Caution novel especially for them and prisoners of war. This is it.
In his tenth and final adventure, set just after the end of the Second World War, Lemmy Caution is in Paris investigating the theft of secret State Department documents. In the opinion of his...
15) Dangerous Curves
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Callaghan awoke and looked at the ceiling. His lips were dry and his tongue felt like a yellow plush sofa. Outside he could hear the rain pattering on the windows. He looked at his wrist-watch. It was eight o'clock.
Vivacious Mrs. Riverton has hired Slim to find her missing stepson, whom she admits she hates.
A dame has to have more than beauty and breeding to stop Slim Callaghan doing things his way. Mrs. Riverton has plenty of both, but when she...
16) Dames Don't Care
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Is it hot! I ain't never been in Hell, but I'm tellin' you that I reckon it ain't any hotter than this Californian desert in July.
Special agent Lemmy Caution is back to tell the story in his inimitable vernacular. This is a tale from the hard-boiled school, spiced with romance, murder, counterfeiting and mistaken identity, spanning the country from New York City to Palm Springs in its stormy passage. The careful reader will need to eliminate more...
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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,...
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Some mug by the name of Confucius - who was a guy who was supposed to know his vegetables - once issued an edict that any time he saw a sap sittin' around bein' impervious to the weather an' anything else that was goin', an' lookin' like he had been hit in the kisser with a flat-iron, the said sap was suffering from woman trouble.
I reckon Confucius musta been thinkin' of me.
In his seventh adventure 'G' man Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate...
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I am thinkin' about Adolf Hitler. I am thinkin' that if it was not for this guy I would probably be kickin' around some swell place in the U.S. takin' things nice an' easy.
Cara, Gayda, Pearl: three sizzling dames. Travis, Clemensky, Clansing: three desperate men. Add a set of secret papers. Bring in FBI man Lemmy Caution to recover the papers. Mix well and serve for another classic and fast-moving story of espionage, deception and double dealing.
Lemmy...
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