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Classical in form, unpretentious, cool and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Peter Cheyney
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- Collins, Penguin Books, Dean Street Press
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781914150913
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About Peter Cheyney · 1896–1951
Peter Cheyney (full name Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. - Wikipedia
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