Uneasy Terms (novel)

1946 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.

## 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.

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