Peter Cheyney

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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1937
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Slim Callaghan Mystery

Dangerous Curves (May-1989)
Urgent Hangman (May-1989)
It Couldn't Matter Less (Sep-1989)
Uneasy Terms (Sep-1989)
Sorry You'Ve Been Troubled (May-1990)

Book List in Order: 34 titles

  • Dames Don't Care

    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 ...

  • Another Little Drink

  • Set-up For Murder

    When Slim Callaghan, suave private eye, told the beautiful night club singer he would find her lover, he let himself in for a dangerous and exciting chase. For his voluptuos client was actually a Scotland Yard agent and her boyfriend was the pawn o...

  • Never a Dull Moment

    '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 Wa...

  • One of Those Things

  • Ladies Won't Wait // Cocktails and the Killer

  • Dark Bahama

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    Harlequin Romance - 354

    Fourteen miles off the tail-end of Andros Island in the West Indies lies Dark Bahama. Many people have discovered they can find their heart's desires there; many have found, too, that even in paradise it pays to watch your step. Viola Steyning is yo...

  • Dangerous Curves

    A Slim Callaghan Mystery

    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 S...

  • Urgent Hangman

    A Slim Callaghan Mystery

    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 ...



  • It Couldn't Matter Less

    A Slim Callaghan Mystery

    "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 singe...

  • Uneasy Terms

    A Slim Callaghan Mystery

    “I know what I’m talking about. And I was never more serious in my life. I tell you that it is absolutely essential that we, the trustees, should know what is going on…I have got the name of some man in London. He seems to be quite a clever per...

  • Sorry You'Ve Been Troubled

    A Slim Callaghan Mystery

    No one asked Callaghan to investigate -- he just did -- and they had to like it. A £40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful women and possibly a faked suicide were at stake. Slim Callaghan, private detective, reckoned the situation looked very inte...

  • They Never Say When

    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...

  • Can Ladies Kill?

    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 l...

  • Don't Get Me Wrong

    '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 reli...

  • I'll Say She Does

    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 wa...

  • Poison Ivy

    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...

  • This Man is Dangerous

    "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 n...

  • You Can Always Duck

    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 d...



  • You'd Be Surprised

    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 good.She says: 'Well for cryin' out loud.'Is this my big day or...

  • Your Deal, My Lovely

    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 ...

  • Dark Duet

    AKA 'Counterspy Murders" "The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth." says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet . And ...

  • Dark Hero

    AKA 'The Case of the Dark Hero'. 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 beautifu...

  • Dark Interlude

    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 ...

  • Dark Wanton

    AKA 'The Case of the Dark Wanton' The Second World War has just ended and the Secret Service has 'mislaid' two lists of German war criminals. Peter Everard Quayle is the head of the Department concerned and he was responsible for t...

  • The Dark Street

    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 ...

  • Sinister Errand

    Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of Kells's sinister errand flit the mysterious 'Aun...

  • The Stars Are Dark

    AKA 'The London Spy Murders' Quayle, the master of a British spy ring in World War II, is faced with the task of dealing with a man who has come from Morocco with what he says is important information about German troops there. But is the ma...

  • You Can't Keep the Change

    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...



  • Dance Without Music

    P.I. Caryl O'Hara gets a visit from Lenore Ivory. The agency he just finished a tough divorce case for recommended him. She's concerned about her friend Esmeralda. Ivory was married to a dirt bag in New York who makes his living off rich women. That ...

  • Calling Mr. Callaghan

    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 deli...

  • Don't Be Surprised

    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...

  • Delphi Collected Works of Peter Cheyney Illustrated

    The British crime fiction writer Peter Cheyney is the creator of the American FBI agent Lemmy Caution and the English detective Slim Callaghan. These characters were constructed as a British response to the hardboiled detectives of American fiction. ...

  • Mistress Murder

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Peter Cheyney has published 34 books.

Peter Cheyney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Delphi Collected Works of Peter Cheyney Illustrated, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Peter Cheyney, Dames Don't Care, was published in January 1937.

Yes. Peter Cheyney has 1 series.
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