Sorry You've Been Troubled

By Peter Cheyney

Book Overview

Effie said: 'You're expecting trouble?' She felt scared.

Callaghan said: 'I've been expecting trouble all my life, Effie, and I usually get it.'

Slim Callaghan, of Callaghan Investigations, the world famous detective and connoisseur of women, is at work again. Ruthless, tough, cynical, Slim was just getting wise to the game of Nicky Starata, an overly-smooth poker player, when he got involved in the mysterious Admiral Gardell case.

No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate - but they had to like it. A 40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful dames and possibly a fake suicide were at stake.

Callaghan's motto was, 'We get there somehow and who the hell cares how'. He got there and got himself a client, eventually - an exquisitely lovely one . . .

Sorry You've Been Troubled was originally published in 1942.

'Peter Cheyney is the Damon Runyon of crime' The Times

'Slim Callaghan's quick wit and knowledge of rough and tumble place him in the top ranks of private eyes. What a man!' New York Times

'A Peter Cheyney novel always tingles with life' Daily Sketch

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1915014131
• ISBN13: 9781915014139
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Dean Street Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Cheyney writes an enjoyable, intelligent mystery

Slim Callaghan is up to his usual tricks, staving off the attention of two gorgeous cousins, Desiree and Manon Gardell. Their uncle, Admiral Gardell, has just been murdered -- or was he a suicide? After a brief mourning period, they hire Slim, hoping he can riddle out their sticky position as beneficiaries of the Admiral's insurance policies. At the same time, Slim is recovering from a nasty beating by Nicky Starata and his oversized henchman, Leon. Nicky is mixed up in a suspicious warehouse fire, and Slim has told his insurance company not to pay the claim. An urbane and nicely-plotted mystery by Cheyney who published 35 novels and passed away in 1951.