This Man is Dangerous
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Author_Peter Cheyney
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Cet homme est dangereux
crime fiction
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FBI agent
French film
gangsters
Lemmy Caution series
murder
mystery
noir
organised crime
private detective
suspense
The Murder Room
thriller
Product details
- ISBN 9781471901393
- Weight: 41g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2013
- Publisher: The Murder Room
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
