Auteur: Peter Cheyney

‘Oklahoma Police Headquarters calling all cruisers, all Highway Police. . . .’

‘Look out for Lemmy Caution who has to-day broken jail at Oklaho …

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 Spe …

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 agen …

To The Director,

Bureau of Investigation,

U.S. Department of Justice, Washington.

Dear …

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 …

‘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 p …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 tol …

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 …

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 look …