CALLAGHAN turned the corner into Chancery Lane. A gust of cold wind met him, blowing back the flaps of his not-so-clean raincoat, sending the rain through his threadbare trouser legs. He was five feet...

CALLAGHAN awoke and looked at the ceiling. The fire sent grotesque shadows flickering across the white expanse above him. He yawned, turned over, kicked off the bedclothes, swung his legs to the floor....

Affare fatto (Your Deal, My Lovely) è un thriller del 1941 dello scrittore britannico Peter Cheyney. È il settimo della sua serie di romanzi con protagonista l'agente dell'FBI Lemmy Caution. Gran parte...

Pubblicato nel 1940 con il titolo You’d be surprised, e in edizione italiana, nei Gialli Mondadori, nel 1948, Roba da matti! è il sesto romanzo della serie di Lemmy Caution, il detective dell'FBI creato...

FOURTEEN miles off the tail end of Andros Island in the Bahamas lies the island called Dark Bahama—which, says the guide book, is a natural paradise. Day and night the golden sand beaches, the calm inlets,...

LADIES and gentlemen, I present to you Vincente Maria Jesu Callao. The business of a personal introduction seems necessary because he was the spring— however unconscious— that set in movement the rather...

Intendiamoci bene... (Don’t get me wrong) è un romanzo thriller del 1939 dello scrittore britannico Peter Cheyney. È il quinto della serie di dieci romanzi con protagonista l'agente dell'FBI Lemmy Caution. Lemmy...

KALEIDOSCOPIC pictures of last night's party presented themselves between myself and the ceiling. One or two faces— one of them was certainly Sammy's face, the other that of an attractive woman— flashed...

THE office was a small, square room on a third floor near Golden Square. It was sombre and unassuming. The furniture was nondescript. A suggestion of efficiency was provided by a steel filing-cabinet....

A FILM director, seeking a ghostly scene for some macabre film, would have acclaimed the location of the Box of Compasses. It stood, set back fifty yards from the deserted cross-roads, one arm of which...

SHAUN ALOYSIUS O'MARA came round the shadow of the low wall that bounded the end of the little church. He stepped unsteadily over the wall; began to walk through the small graveyard towards the yew-tree...

THE yellow mist seeped into the Place des Roses; bringing an almost evil quality to the cul-de-sac; rising only a few feet from the ground; creating the impression that there were no foundations to the...

Mai un momento di quiete! (Never a Dull Moment) è un romanzo thriller del 1942 dello scrittore britannico Peter Cheyney e rappresenta l’ottava storia in cui è protagonista il detective federale Lemmy...

È arrivato Lemmy Caution! è uno dei più famosi romanzi “gialli” di Peter Cheyney, pubblicato in Italia nel 1947. Lemmy Caution, un impertinente ma simpatico detective (agente federale), si trova a investigare...

Lemmy Caution e il Drago Blu è uno dei più famosi romanzi “gialli” di Peter Cheyney, pubblicato in Italia nel 1952. Lemmy Caution, un impertinente ma simpatico detective (agente federale), si trova a...

EFFIE THOMPSON was asleep. She was wearing an eau-de-nil satin nightgown. Her red hair, draped over one shoulder, tied with a ribbon, made an effective contrast. She was dreaming in a rather agitated...

In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire...

Fourteen miles off the tail-end of Andros Island in the West Indies lies Dark Bahama. Many people have discovered they can find their heart's desires there; many have found, too, that even in paradise...

Quayle, the master of a British spy ring in World War II, is faced with the task of dealing with a man who has come from Morocco with what he says is important information about German troops there. But...

Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of...

Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels - heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for £100,000 - have disappeared.With his assistant,...

It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.Callaghan...

Henrietta looked at Lemmy Caution with starry eyes. 'There's breakfast on the way,' she said, 'come on in.''Listen lady,' replied Lemmy. 'Maybe you ain't heard about me. I think I oughta warn you, I am...

The fourth title in the Lemmy Caution seriesIn the morgue office there ain't anybody there at all. We go through the office into the corpse room. I switch on the light an' there we start pullin' out the...

No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate - he just did it - and they had to like it. A £40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful women and possibly a fake suicide were at stake. Slim Callaghan, private...

Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the killing of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential for danger when she drafted the will that prevents any of her daughters from being...

In the second Lemmy Caution novel, the FBI man is sent by his bosses to Casablanca to investigate the disappearance of two million dollars, which have seemingly vanished into thin air. There he meets...

Textauszug: "Jetzt hören Sie mal zu, Skendall", sage ich. "Ich glaube, ich bin Ihnen auf der Spur. Zunächst einmal möchte ich von Ihnen wissen, was gestern Abend bei Joe Madrigaul vorgefallen ist. Wie...

"Lemmy", sagt sie, "Sie müssen wissen, dass ich Sie für einen ganz köstlichen Menschen halte. Sie sind so direkt, dass Sie manchmal die offensichtlichsten Tatsachen übersehen. "Sie ziehen mich auf seltsame...

Die Handlung mit dem Super-FBI-Agent Lemmy Caution beginnt in diesen Pulp-Thriller in Mexiko auf der Spur eines anderen G-Man, der verschwunden ist. Es geht um eine chemische Formel zweier Chemiker für...