Dance Without Music

by Peter Cheyney

Overview

P.I. Caryl O'Hara gets a visit from Lenore Ivory. The agency he just finished a tough divorce case for recommended him. She's concerned about her friend Esmeralda. Ivory was married to a dirt bag in New York who makes his living off rich women. That includes blackmail.

Leonore divorced him and he had eyes for her friend,the wealthy Esmeralda. They got married and are in England. Lenore wants O'Hara to confront the slimeball and threaten to go to the police if he finds evidence that hubby put Esmeralda on drugs. O'Hara says no.

Turns out Esmeralda is a heroin addict and lost all her money. Hubby is eventually murderered. Looks like she did it. O'Hara gets involved.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157487669
Publisher:	London : Vallancey Press
Publication date:	06/08/2017
Series:	Slim Callaghan , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	26
File size:	955 KB

About the Author

Born Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney, he trained as a lawyer before getting tired of legal office work and joining the Army. He fought at the second Battle of the Somme in World War I and was wounded but when he returned to England he wrote songs, poems and short stories for various newspapers and magazines and used many pseudonyms.

He also turned his hand to journalism, was a newspaper editor and also owned a detective agency, Cheyney Research Investigations.

His first published novel was This Man Is Dangerous and this began his prolific novel writing career. Thereafter he averaged two mystery novels a year with his best known characters being Slim Callaghan and Lemmy Caution and he became one of the best known and most successful of British crime novelists. His success also brought with it financial rewards and he was recognised as one of the richest authors of the time.

There have been many film versions of his works, which helped spread his popularity, particularly to the United States.

His life-style, one of hard-living, much like his characters, and hard work eventually took their toll and he died at age 55. He was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery.