Dark Duet

'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 seems to me damn good' Raymond Chandler

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Cheyney
• Publisher: Orion
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 21.01.2014
• EAN: 9781471901737
• ISBN: 978-1-4719-0173-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Dark series; Dark Series; Murder Room
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, Classic crime, Classic crime and mystery fiction