Peter Cheyney: Can Ladies Kill? Printed book.

A classic of hardboiled detective fiction from a celebrated English author. The fourth, fifth, and sixth novels featuring FBI agent Lemmy Caution.
Can Ladies Kill?
When the FBI director received a letter from a certain Marella Thorensen hinting at crimes of national scale, he sent Lemmy Caution to solve the mystery. Arriving at the author's house at the appointed time, Lemmy found the place empty and Marella strangely missing. What seemed like a trivial case turns into a difficult investigation, during which Lemmy encounters smugglers, hitmen, the Chinese mafia, and lethal beauties.
Don't Get Me Wrong
Two chemists, one English and one American, have independently begun developing a poison gas capable of becoming a next-generation weapon. In such a situation, it is only logical to pool their efforts to ensure quick success. They decide to settle the chemists on a quiet hacienda in the Mexican backwoods. But soon, the leader of a Chicago gangster syndicate finds out about it…
You'd Be Surprised
The son of a Pittsburgh "steel king" goes missing. After a while, it becomes clear: this is not another runaway attempt by a young spendthrift, but a kidnapping, and a rather strange one at that. For some reason, the kidnappers are in no hurry to name a ransom and are not making any contact at all. To make matters worse, the daughter falls head over heels in love with a Russian count—a handsome man and a "real colonel"—and heads off to join her beloved in Paris. It would seem like just another scandal in a noble family. But it is 1940, and the "steel king" is busy manufacturing weapons for England…
The novels in this collection are published in new translations.

Author: Peter Cheyney

Translation: Igor Ivanov, Sergey Samuylov

Pages: 640 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 218x148x33

Series: Foreign Literature. Big Books