Can Ladies Kill?
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Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Peter Cheyney |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Lemmy Caution #4 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | William Collins |
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Publication date
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1938 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Can Ladies Kill? is a crime novel by British author Peter Cheyney first published in 1938 by William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd. Set in San Francisco and featuring Cheyney's creation, G-Man Lemmy Caution, it belongs to the hardboiled school of crime writing.
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- Jonathan Latimer: The Lady in the Morgue (1936) (another female body in another mortuary)
- Raymond Chandler: Farewell, My Lovely (1940) (changing identities)
- Vera Caspary: Bedelia (1945) (wicked woman / femme fatale)
- Mickey Spillane: I, the Jury (1947) (vigilantism / bypassing due process of law)
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