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Peter Cheyney

1896 - 1951

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Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine (however, the best known of these – the 1965 science fiction film Alphaville – was not directly based on a Cheyney novel). Another popular creation was the private detective Slim Callaghan who also appeared in a series of novels and subsequent film adaptations. Although out of print for many years, Cheyney's novels have never been difficult to find second-hand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Cheyney has received more than 99,287 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Cheyney is the 4,120th most popular writer (down from 3,278th in 2019), the 2,951st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,426th in 2019) and the 330th most popular British Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 5.26

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  • 2.10

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Cheyney ranks 4,120 out of 7,302. Before him are Ngaio Marsh, Ō no Yasumaro, Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Cemal Süreya, Ken Adam, and Maximilian Harden. After him are Musa Anter, Robert Rozhdestvensky, José Enrique Rodó, Gregory David Roberts, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and Jackie Collins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Peter Cheyney ranks 170. Before him are Lilia Skala, Murray Leinster, Edward Arthur Milne, William Gopallawa, Robert Gerhard, and Franz Blücher. After him are Lado Gudiashvili, J. Lawton Collins, Steponas Darius, Adhemar Pimenta, Fritz Julius Kuhn, and Jessie Royce Landis. Among people deceased in 1951, Peter Cheyney ranks 120. Before him are Nikola Mushanov, Karel Teige, Edith Hannam, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Carl Albert Andersen, and Henry Carton de Wiart. After him are Miyamoto Yuriko, Anna Tumarkin, Fritz Julius Kuhn, Pamela Colman Smith, Enrique Santos Discépolo, and Hasrat Mohani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Peter Cheyney ranks 2,951 out of 8,785. Before him are Phil Taylor (1960), Matthew Garber (1956), Shirley Henderson (1965), Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (1987), Alan Ball Jr. (1945), and Steve Davis (1957). After him are Richard Lydekker (1849), Hank Marvin (1941), Adrian Boult (1889), Ben Whishaw (1980), John Phillips (1800), and Jackie Collins (1937).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Peter Cheyney ranks 330. Before him are Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Michael Morpurgo (1943), Anita Brookner (1928), Fay Weldon (1931), Maria Edgeworth (1768), and Eric Frank Russell (1905). After him are Jackie Collins (1937), Helen Fielding (1958), John Christopher (1922), Susanna Hall (1583), Sue Townsend (1946), and William Langland (1332).

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