Ladies won't wait

Written by Peter Cheyney

Narrated by Austin Vanfleet

The lady of the night – was dead before morning.

Michael Kells is a British secret agent waiting for his next assignment in France and when he comes across a beautiful woman – almost too beautiful to be true – who seems extraordinarily interested in him. This launch Kells on an intoxicating trail of intrigue, murder, and deadly romance through the bistros and boudoirs of the world’s worst underground!

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During the short period of fifteen years Peter Cheyney managed to write more than thirty books. Resulting in sales which run into millions of copies. 

Cheyney's stories are about the grim, the slick, the seductive and the amusing – just true to life as Cheyney knew it. You will find plenty of strong meat, well spiced with humour in good measure. Detectives, gamesters, thieves, and hard-living beauties makes a glorious story of excitement, humour, suspense, crossing and double-crossing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Yabot
• Release date: Nov 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9789189225626

Peter Cheyney

Peter Cheyney was a British writer best known for his authorship of hard-boiled detective fiction featuring the fictitious Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan. A police reporter and crime investigator by trade, Cheyney penned his first detective story on a bet. Novels like This Man is Dangerous, The Urgent Hangman, and Dames Don’t Care followed, and allowed Cheyney to pursue writing full-time. During his lifetime, Cheyney sold more than one million copies of his books, making him one of the most popular writers of his era. Cheyney died in 1951.