A01=Peter Cheyney
Author_Peter Cheyney
Case of the Dark Wanton
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crime fiction
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French film
investigation
murder
mystery
secret agent
spy story
suspense
The Dark Series
The Murder Room
thriller
war criminals
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9781471901836
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2014
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 the compilation of the list. Instead of handing the job over to his agents he decides to call in a group of people who operated behind enemy lines during the war.
Among them is Michael Frewin, Quayle's second-in-command, who appears to be a bit of a fop - but outward appearances are deceptive for he is a cold-blooded killer ...
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.
