Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) — known as Peter Cheyney — was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is the author of hard-boiled short stories and novels in the American style, most famously a series of ten novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine. (The most well-known of these, the 1965 science fiction film Alphaville, was not directly based on a Cheyney novel.)His other memorable creation is Slim Callaghan, a somewhat disreputable private detective most at home in the less savoury sections of London.Although Cheyney's novels sold in the millions during his lifetime, he is almost forgotten today, and his works are mostly out of print.. }
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- Peter_Cheyney abstract "Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) — known as Peter Cheyney — was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is the author of hard-boiled short stories and novels in the American style, most famously a series of ten novels about agent/detective Lemmy Caution, which, starting in 1953, were adapted into a series of French movies, all starring Eddie Constantine. (The most well-known of these, the 1965 science fiction film Alphaville, was not directly based on a Cheyney novel.)His other memorable creation is Slim Callaghan, a somewhat disreputable private detective most at home in the less savoury sections of London.Although Cheyney's novels sold in the millions during his lifetime, he is almost forgotten today, and his works are mostly out of print.".