The Stars Are Dark by Peter Cheyney – Collins white circle pocket novels, no. 211 Lage Kosten

Beschrijving

“Pale ghost tread softly when the stars are dark”

Collins white circle pocket novels, no. 211.

Quayle puts his agents into action, not hesitating to risk their lives to discover the answer, but it is Quayle who ends up doing most of the work – and who is prepared to sacrifice everything for the cause of war.

About the Author:
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney(1896-1951) 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 filmAlphaville. The master of British noir, in Lemmy Caution Peter Cheyney created the blueprint for the tough-talking, hard-drinking pulp fiction detective.

For further NOTES See the BACK andalso the TITLE PAGE of the book!