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 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 the trouble with Michael Kane, hero of this spy thriller, is that he never plays cricket with Nazi spies . . .
Dark Duet was originally published in 1942.
‘Action as slick and fast as ever’ Observer
‘Peter Cheyney is the Damon Runyon of crime’ The Times
About the author
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.
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