Your Deal, My Lovely is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution.[2] Much of the action takes place in wartime London.[3] Caution is called in to investigate the disappearance of a prominent scientist.
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Author | Peter Cheyney |
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Language | English |
Series | Lemmy Caution |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | William Collins, Sons |
Publication date | 1941 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
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Preceded by | You'd Be Surprised |
Followed by | Never a Dull Moment |
Film adaptation
editIt was made into a 1963 French film Your Turn, Darling directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Eddie Constantine, Gaia Germani and Guy Delorme.[4] It was part of a group of French adaptations of Cheyney novels, whose works were very popular in the country.
References
editBibliography
edit- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Hutton, Margaret-Anne. French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005: Investigating World War II. Routledge, 2016.
- James, Russell. Great British Fictional Detectives. Remember When, 21 Apr 2009.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
- Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives. Scarecrow Press, 1979.