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You Can Always Duck
First edition
Author Peter Cheyney
LanguageEnglish
Series Lemmy Caution
GenreThriller
Publisher William Collins, Sons
Publication date
1943
Publication place United Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded by Never a Dull Moment 
Followed by I'll Say She Does 

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]

References

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

Bibliography

  • 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.