*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: We’re continuing to introduce the new layout for our books categories, with an image for each book. This week, we return to our Crime, Spies & Sleaze category and the thrillers of English author Peter Cheyney, who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney’s works can be divided into three main series: Lemmy Caution, ersatz American detective mysteries, Slim Callaghan, a British detective based in London, and the Dark series, espionage fiction, with a more realistic approach to casual brutality and general grubbiness, these seem to have foreshadowed much of the Cold War fiction of the mid to late 1960s. All three series will be featured in our Cheyney listings (alongside non-series novels), where our stock is extensive enough to split into two parts. This is the second part, mostly Fontana paperbacks. I’m pleased to say that after the re-listing of the first part a couple of weeks ago, our stock is no longer so extensive! Full details as always in our catalogue.

PICTURED: ALL BY PETER CHEYNEY
I’LL SAY SHE DOES Fontana 1960 UK PB GD/VG £4
LADIES WON’T WAIT Fontana 1954 UK PB GD £4
ONE OF THOSE THINGS Fontana 1953 UK PB GD £4
THE STARS ARE DARK Fontana 1657 UK PB GD £4
THIS MAN IS DANGEROUS Fontana 1954 UK PB GD £6
THE URGENT HANGMAN Fontana 1955 UK PB VG £8
YOU CAN ALWAYS DUCK Fontana 1959 UK PB VG £8
YOU’D BE SURPRISED Pan 1956 UK PB GD £4
YOUR DEAL, MY LOVELY Fontana 1957 1st UK PB VG £5