cover blurb:

Dark Wanton is a tense novel, set primarily in London’s West End, which hinges upon the disappearance of two vital lists containg the names of secondary war criminals wanted by the Allied authorities. Their recovery is the responsibility of poker-faced Everard Peter Quayle and his oddly assorted team of secret agents. Who has the lists? Is it Kospovic, international spy, trickster, and theif? Kiernan, the former British agent? Aurora Francis, Kiernan’s beautiful girl-friend? Or Vincente, the suave leader of the rumba band at the Cockatoo? Two are quickly eliminated. Kospovic is found dead in woodland clearing. Callao is shot aboard a boat heading for France. By now the reader is more than half in the secret, but the lists themselves are still missing, and a dangerous game of double double-cross is being played among both suspects and seekers. Both excitement and mystery grow until, in the inimitable Cheyney manner, the action reaches a dramatic climax in the bedroom of Aurora’s suite in a Paris hotel.