Uneasy Terms (novel)

Uneasy Terms

First edition
Author	Peter Cheyney
Language	English
Series	Slim Callaghan
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	William Collins, Sons
Publication date	1946
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	They 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.

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.

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]

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• 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.

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