For correspondance about the Official Peter Cheyney Website contact Adrian Sensicle: email

Agents for Peter Cheyney’s estate:
• Toby Eady Associates Ltd., 9 Orme Court, London W2 4RL
• Hoffman Agency, 77 Boulevard St Michel, Paris 75005, France

STUFF

WALLPAPER

Click on the image for the exclusive Peter Cheyney wallpaper
(800x600 pixels)

P-P-P-PENGUINS

There’s a Cheyney shopping bag among the classic Penguin covers reproduced on various household items – mugs, pencils, tea towels, even deckchairs. Available from many outlets, including Bloomsbury (click on the picture) or see the Cheyney Penguin page.

AUDIO BOOKS

There are four Peter Cheyney titles currently available as audio books from Soundings:
http://www.isis-publishing.co.uk/ see the list at the bottom of our misc. publications page.

BOOK LINKS

Dennis Wheatley • the wonderfully comprehensive Tribute Site to Dennis Wheatley: the complete web-bibliography of one of UK’s most prolific and popular authors of his time http://www.denniswheatley.info

Pan book covers • a great resource of cover art, including 16 Peter Cheyney paperbacks http://www.tikit.net

Thrilling Detective • http://www.thrillingdetective.com is “The web’s premier site for fans of private eyes and other tough guys and gals who make trouble their business – not their hobby!” and includes plenty of information on Peter Cheyney http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/cheyney.html

Bookcrossing is defined as “the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.” There are at least 80 Cheyney books, in various languages, currently in the wild. Each BookCrossing book is given a code number so it can be tracked; click the running book sign to follow them (or to learn how to release your own) at BookCrossing.com

Nigel Williams Rare Books • a fine rare book shop (stock includes a number of signed Cheyneys) to be found at 25 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London WC2N 4EZ (tel: +44 (0) 20 7836 7757) and on-line: http://www.nigelwilliams.com

French books on-line • buy them at the fabulous Bibliosurf http://www.bibliosurf.com/

Peter Cheyney in Russian • http://rraymond.narod.ru/cheyney-bib.htm

FILM LINKS

Eddie Constantine • the man who made a film career of playing Cheyney’s Lemmy Caution – featured on our own Just Like Eddie! page

video covers • if you have ever wanted to make a proper cover for that classic film you recorded from the TV, this archive of French film posters (some featured on the FILMS page) will do it for you. Just find the film (search in any language) and then, at the bottom of the page, set your format (DVD, video...) click on the “voir” button to get your pdf cover, including cast and sleeve notes http://www.moviecovers.com

Allmovie • film reviews, cast lists and plot summeries http://www.allmovie.com

Internet Movie Database • the clue is in the title http://uk.imdb.com/

Jean Luc Godard • all you could want to know on the great man and his films http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4355/index.html

THEATRE LINKS

Footlight Notes • many thanks to John Culme of Footlight Notes “an electronic zine about popular entertainment during a period of extraordinary activity in the history of the theatre: the 1850s to the 1920s” for the photo and information on Dorma Leigh http://footlightnotes.tripod.com including a page on Bramsby Williams: http://gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextW/BransbyWilliams.html

The British Music Hall Society • thanks also to The British Music Hall Society, in particular Patrick Newley, editor of the society’s magazine Call Boy http://www.music-hall-society.com

Make Em Laugh! • FOR YOUR DELECTATION: A SYMPOSIUM OF JOCULAR MONOLOGUES, HUMOROUS RECITATIONS & WHIMSICAL POETRY. Over 1,120 titles compiled by Paul Wilkinson http://monologues.co.uk/index.htm ALSO, SEND AN ELECTRONIC SAUCY SEASIDE ‘PEDRO’ POSTCARD

MISC. LINKS

BOND, JAMES...

It has to be said that Ian Fleming’s James Bond owes more than a small debt to his Cheyney predecessors, particularly those from the Dark series: Kane and Guelvada, their controller Quayle, the fatal women and even the odd Martini Cocktail. Ian Fleming Official site: http://www.ianflemingcentre.com

DICK BRUNA

Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy, designed many iconic Cheyney paperbacks for Dutch publishers Zwarte Beertjes. (see the DUTCH COVERS page) Click on Miffy above to see some of the covers, or go to Bruna’s own website: http://www.miffy.com/

FAMOUS BELGIANS

Ernie Guelvada – who appears in the Dark series – is Belgian. It is unlikely that Peter Cheyney had even heard of Belgium’s most famous comic book hero Tintin (whos adventures were not published in English until the 1970s) but Guelvada’s undercover name is Pierre Hellard which is strangely similar to the transposed names of Agatha Christies’ own Belgian hero: Hercule Poirot, and both men are described as short and stocky (although Guelvada is all muscle). It is probable that Hergé would have known of Cheyney’s books which were very popular on the continent after WWII and the many French film adaptations. Anyway, both Poirot and Tintin are well-dressed international adventurers, so Peter Cheyney is sure to have approved.

Tintin • the almost perfect Tintin site is at: http://www.tintin.com

Agatha Christie • search for Poirot at the slick new Agatha Christie site: http://uk.agathachristie.com/site/home/

...and in case you were wondering: non-fictional Famous Belgians include Jacques Brel, Rene Magritte, Eddy Merckx, Audrey Hepburn and, of course, Georges Simenon (the magnificent Inspector Maigret is a Parisian, but his creator was Belgian born and bred). And if that’s not enough try: http://www.famousbelgians.net/
Thanks must go to everyone who has helped make this site possible, people who supplied information and images, but most particularly my wife and kids – who have been inrcedibly tolerant with what they refer to as an obsession.