You Can Always Duck is a 1943 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It is the ninth in his series of novels featuring the FBI agent Lemmy Caution.[2] The action takes place in wartime London where Caution is on the trail of a gang of black marketeers who have got mixed up in espionage. It was one of a number of films and novels of the period that made use of the booming black market for their setting.[3]

You Can Always Duck
First edition
AuthorPeter Cheyney
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesLemmy Caution
GenreThriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date
1943
Media typePrint
Preceded byNever a Dull Moment 
Followed byI'll Say She Does 

References edit

  1. ^ Server p.63
  2. ^ Reilly p.300
  3. ^ Roodhouse p.230

Bibliography edit

  • James, Russell. Great British Fictional Detectives. Remember When, 21 Apr 2009.
  • Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives. Scarecrow Press, 1979.
  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Roodhouse, Mark. Black Market Britain: 1939-1955. OUP Oxford, 2013.
  • Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Infobase Publishing, 2014.