Your Deal, My Lovely
First edition
AuthorPeter Cheyney
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLemmy Caution
GenreThriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date
1941
Media typePrint
Preceded byYou'd Be Surprised 
Followed byNever a Dull Moment 

Your Deal, My Lovely is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It is the seventh in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution.[2] Much of the action takes place in wartime London.[3] Caution is called in to investigate the disappearance of a prominent scientist.

Film adaptation

It was made into a 1963 French film Your Turn, Darling directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Eddie Constantine, Gaia Germani and Guy Delorme.[4] It was part of a group of French adaptations of Cheyney novels, whose works were very popular in the country.

References

  1. Server p.63
  2. Reilly p.300
  3. Hutton p.56
  4. Goble p.82

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Hutton, Margaret-Anne. French Crime Fiction, 1945–2005: Investigating World War II. Routledge, 2016.
  • James, Russell. Great British Fictional Detectives. Remember When, 21 Apr 2009.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives. Scarecrow Press, 1979.


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