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Dance Without Music (novel)

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Dance Without Music
First edition
AuthorPeter Cheyney
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons
Publication date
1947
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages192

Dance Without Music is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] While Cheyney had gained his reputation with series about two celebrated characters Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan, he also wrote several popular stand-alone novels about hardboiled private detectives such as this.[2] It was serialised in Britain by The News of the World. In the United States it was published by Dodd Mead in 1948.

Synopsis

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Private detective Caryl Wylde O’Hara becomes drawn into a case involving a man and his heroin-addicted wife.

References

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  1. ^ Reilly p.300
  2. ^ Reilly p.303

Bibliography

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  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.