1. Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951.
17 Facts About Peter Cheyney
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Peter Cheyney was born in Whitechapel in 1896, the youngest of five children, and educated at the Mercers' School in the City of London.
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Peter Cheyney began to write skits for the theatre as a teenager, but this ended when the First World War began.
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Peter Cheyney sold his first story as the result of this bet.
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Peter Cheyney wrote his first novel, the Lemmy Caution thriller This Man Is Dangerous in 1936 and followed it with the first Slim Callaghan novel, The Urgent Hangman in 1938.
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The immediate success of these two novels assured him of a flourishing new career, and Peter Cheyney abandoned his work as a freelance investigator.
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Peter Cheyney will get no sleep, drink continually, and drive his Jaguar long distances.
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Peter Cheyney will meet a string of attractive women who throw themselves at him, while he only has eyes for his refined client.
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Peter Cheyney published one volume of short stories, advice to critics and a few poems in No Ordinary Peter Cheyney.
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Peter Cheyney appears as man-of-fortune William Benson, one of the suspects.
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Peter Cheyney died at age 55, after having fallen into a coma.
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Peter Cheyney was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery in London.
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From all accounts, Peter Cheyney lived much like his characters, working too hard, living the fast and careless life with a breathtaking abandon that eventually caught up with him.
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Peter Cheyney joined the New Party in 1931, heading its youth detachment, which protected public meetings.
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Peter Cheyney was married three times: in 1919 to the stage actress Dorma Leigh, in 1934 to Kathleen Nora Walter Taberer, and in 1948 to Lauretta Theresa Singer.
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Peter Cheyney published a semi-autobiographical volume, Making Crime Pay and after his death at least two biographical essays appeared in posthumous collections.
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An essay by Viola Garvin, "Peter Cheyney" appears in Velvet Johnnie a posthumous collection of Cheyney's short stories.