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Peter Cheyney
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951), known as Peter Cheyney, was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best-known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine (however, the most well-known of these – the 1965 science fiction film ''Alphaville'' – was not directly based on a Cheyney novel).
Although out of print for many years, Cheyney's novels have never been difficult to find second-hand. Several of them have recently been made available as e-books.
==Early life==
Peter Cheyney was born in 1896, the youngest of five children, and educated at the Mercers' School in the City of London.〔(The Life & Times of Peter Cheyney, Chapter 1: East-End Boy ), petercheyney.co.uk〕 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.〔(The Life & Times of Peter Cheyney, Chapter 2: Wars, Wives & Work ), petercheyney.co.uk〕
Starting in the late 1920s, Cheyney worked for the Metropolitan Police as a police reporter and crime investigator. Until he became successful as a crime novelist, he was often quite poor. It is said that he got his start through a bet; when Cheyney remarked that anyone could write a book in the idiom of the American thriller, he was wagered five pounds that he could not. Cheyney sold his first story as the result of this bet.
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