Peter Cheyney

Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney , known as Peter Cheyney, was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps bestknown for his short stories and novels about agentdetective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine .

Peter Cheyney was born in 1896, the youngest of five children, and educated at the Mercers School in the City of London. He began to write skits for the theatre as a teenager, but this ended when the First World War began. In 1915 he enlisted in the British Army as a volunteer, in 1916 was wounded on active service and published two volumes of poetry, Poems of Love and War and To Corona and Other Poems. The next year, 1917, his military service ended.

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