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Uneasy Terms (novel)

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Uneasy Terms
First edition
AuthorPeter Cheyney
LanguageEnglish
SeriesSlim Callaghan
GenreThriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date
1946
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded byThey Never Say When 

Uneasy Terms is a 1946 crime thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It was the seventh and last in his series featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan, a British version of the hardboiled heroes of American writing.

Synopsis

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Callaghan encounter a case in a small country village near Alfriston where a wealthy woman may have been killed by any one of her three attractive daughters, furious about the terms of the new will she was drafting.

Film adaptation

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In 1948 it was made into a British film of the same title directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Michael Rennie, Moira Lister and Joy Shelton.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Reilly p.300
  2. ^ Goble p.82

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 1. Salem Press, 1988.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Infobase Publishing, 2014.