Don't Get Me Wrong

''Proceed with caution . . . to Mexico . . .''

Or as special agent Lemmy Caution sees it: ''It''s hot as hell. Away down the dirt road some guy''s playin'' one of them wailin'' Mexican fandangles which give me that twilight feelin'' . . . maybe it''d be a relief to start dyin'' . . .

''Across the road some guy in a funny hat is handin'' out a spiel to a dame about what a great bullfighter he used to be. Maybe she''s his wife. If she is, then all I can say is she''s a bad picker . . . Me, I''d have married the bull . . .''

A Lemmy Caution adventure south of the borders, packed with chills, spills, action and dames.

Don''t Get Me Wrong was originally published in 1939.

''Peter Cheyney is the Damon Runyon of crime'' The Times