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You'd Be Surprised
AuthorPeter Cheyney
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSlim Callaghan
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1944
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded bySorry You've Been Troubled 
Followed byUneasy Terms 

They Never Say When is a 1944 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It is the sixth in his series of novels featuring the London private detective Slim Callaghan, a British version of the increasingly popular hardboiled American detectives.

Synopsis

Callaghan is hired by a Mrs Paula Denys who claims that she paid a to steal a priceless coronet from her husband's safe. Now he refuses to hand over the stolen and is instead trying to blackmail her.

References

  1. ^ Reilly p.300

Bibliography

  • Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 1. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Infobase Publishing, 2014.
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