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  • This Man Is Dangerous
    Peter Cheyney
    An American federal agent goes undercover as a notorious mobster in London to infiltrate a ruthless international kidnapping syndicate. The target is a headstrong heiress known for her dangerous taste in low-life thrills. As the agent navigates a web of double-crosses involving rival gangs and deceptive women, he must play a high-stakes game of pretend to save the victim and di...
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    15,33 €

  • Dark Interlude
    Peter Cheyney
    Dark Interlude centers on a shattered intelligence operative posing as a washed-up mechanic on the Brittany coast, drinking himself into irrelevance-until a woman tied to his covert past reactivates him for one final mission. Beneath the sunlit stillness of the French countryside, a covert war continues, and ghosts of old operations still kill.As betrayal circles in from all si...
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    15,55 €

  • Undressed to Kill
    Peter Cheyney
    In the shadowy corners of post-war Europe, Nicholas Gale thrives in the murky interplay of love and deceit. With the grit of London’s streets and the glamor of high society as his playground, Gale navigates a world where romance is a game of high stakes, and loyalty is as fleeting as the smoky aftertaste of a late-night whisky. When entangled with a woman whose beauty is outsho...
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    11,43 €

  • Uneasy Terms
    Peter Cheyney
    In the rolling hills of Sussex, private detective Slim Callaghan finds himself embroiled in a web of deceit, blackmail, and murder. When the wealthy Alardyse family’s patriarch is found dead, Callaghan must navigate through a maze of family secrets, illicit affairs, and hidden identities. As he unravels the truth behind the death of Colonel Stenhurst, he becomes entangled with ...
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    15,45 €

  • They Never Say When
    Peter Cheyney
    In a world where shadows loom larger than life, Slim Callaghan, private detective, finds himself ensnared in a web more tangled than any he’s encountered before. 'They Never Say When' thrusts Callaghan into the murky depths of deception and greed, courtesy of a client whose allure is as dangerous as the secret she harbours.When Mrs. Paula Denys walks into his office, her reques...
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    11,34 €

  • This Man is Dangerous
    Peter Cheyney
    Oklahoma Police Headquarters calling all cruisers, all Highway Police.Look out for Lemmy Caution who has today broken jail at Oklahoma City, after killing a guard and Deputy Sheriff.Last seen proceeding in the direction of the State line near Tahlequah. Is probably proceeding to Joplin. Be careful. This man is dangerous!He is driving a dark green Ford V. 8 Sedan, with the near ...
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    11,46 €

  • Dance Without Music
    Peter Cheyney
    The story of the grim finale to a dream of love.Private investigator Caryl O’Hara’s reputation, precedes him. Fresh off a challenging divorce investigation, Lenore Ivory, a desperate woman seeking justice, walks through the door of his office.Lenore was once married to a conniving scoundrel who preys on wealthy women for financial gain. Having divorced him, her former husband h...
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    12,21 €

  • The Man Nobody Saw
    Peter Cheyney
    A boudoir mystery of detection, action ... and amour.Johnny Vallon exchanges the dangers of total war for the equally hazardous challenges of Chennault’s Investigations. And in the heart of London, murder hits home - right in Chennault’s office.Chennault, himself, owner of the flourishing detective agency, is found slumped over his desk. Heart trouble is the official diagnosis....
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    12,31 €

  • Dames Don’t Care
    Peter Cheyney
    Lemmy Caution investigates a counterfeiting case and a suspicious suicide. Are the two cases connected? Before the action is over, he’ll travel from New York to the desert outside Palm Springs- encountering beautiful dames-and more than a few desperate men...who aren’t afraid to kill! ...
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    15,37 €

  • Dressed to Kill
    Peter Cheyney
    Mario Zona, owner of the Silver Ring night club, was frightened. He thought he was going to be killed, so he called Rufus Gaunt, a private investigator.Meralda Grey, the beautiful night club singer; her fiancé Michel Lorimer; Zona’s secretary Wolfe Lanel and the pretty cigarette girl Geraldine are all involved in this vintage Peter Cheyney story of murder in London’s West End. ...
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    9,43 €

  • This Man is Dangerous
    Peter Cheyney
    'Oklahoma Police Headquarters calling all cruisers, all Highway Police. . . .''Look out for Lemmy Caution who has to-day broken jail at Oklahoma city, after killing a guard and deputy-Sheriff.'Last seen proceeding in the direction of the State line near Tahlequah. Is probably proceeding to Joplin. Be careful. This man is dangerous!'He is driving a dark green Ford V8 Sedan, with...
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    13,68 €

  • Poison Ivy
    Peter Cheyney
    Operation 42-7-3-36.Special Agent Lemuel H. Caution will proceed to New York for the purpose of effecting under-cover contact with Federal Special Agent Myras Duncan, Chicago 'G' Division, from whom further instructions will be obtained.Special Agent Caution will assume the identity of Perry Charles Rice, travelling bond salesman: home town Mason City, Iowa. Contact with Myras ...
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    13,64 €

  • Dames Don’t Care
    Peter Cheyney
    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...
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    13,63 €

  • Can Ladies Kill?
    Peter Cheyney
    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...
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    13,60 €

  • Don’t Get Me Wrong
    Peter Cheyney
    ’Proceed with caution . . . to Mexico . . .’Or as special agent Lemmy Caution sees it: ’It’s hot as hell. Away down the dirt road some guy’s playin’ one of them wailin’ Mexican fandangles which give me that twilight feelin’ . . . maybe it’d be a relief to start dyin’ . . .’Across the road some guy in a funny hat is handin’ out a spiel to a dame about what a great bullfighter he...
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    13,61 €

  • Don’t Be Surprised
    Peter Cheyney
    I do not propose to be Lemmy Caution of the F.B.I. on this job. No, sir. I have come over as Cyrus T. Hickory of the Transcontinental Detective Agency-a private dick-an’ I will tell you why.Blood’s runnin’ down my face from where this guy’s just bust me, my nose feels like it’s split in half. Then this dame gets up an’ strolls over to me - I reckon I am not lookin’ quite so goo...
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    13,61 €

  • Your Deal My Lovely
    Peter Cheyney
    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 ...
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    13,64 €

  • Never a Dull Moment
    Peter Cheyney
    ’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...
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    13,64 €

  • The Urgent Hangman
    Peter Cheyney
    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.Sl...
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    13,60 €

  • You Can’t Keep The Change
    Peter Cheyney
    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...
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    13,60 €

  • They Never Say When
    Peter Cheyney
    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 bl...
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    13,60 €

  • Uneasy Terms
    Peter Cheyney
    If you have nerve enough to kill someone, you have nerve enough for anything.Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the murder of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential danger when she drafted the will - which prevented any of her daughters being married strictly for her fortune.But no case is too intriguing for shrewd detective Slim Callaghan, who s...
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    13,60 €

  • Calling Mr. Callaghan
    Peter Cheyney
    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 auda...
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    13,72 €

  • Dark Duet
    Peter Cheyney
    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 th...
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    13,50 €

  • The Stars are Dark
    Peter Cheyney
    '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...
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    13,60 €

  • The Dark Street
    Peter Cheyney
    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 w...
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    13,64 €

  • Dark Hero
    Peter Cheyney
    '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 N...
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    13,60 €

  • Dark Interlude
    Peter Cheyney
    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 ar...
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    13,64 €

  • Dark Wanton
    Peter Cheyney
    A Secret Service thriller of double-cross and double double-cross! As exciting as only Cheyney can make it.The Second World War has just ended and the Secret Service discover that two lists of German war criminals have vanished. Peter Quayle is the head of the responsible department, and he is now tasked with the recovery of the lists. Instead of sharing the job with his usual ...
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    13,61 €

  • You Can Always Duck
    Peter Cheyney
    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 cla...
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    13,60 €


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