Your Deal My Lovely

Some mug by the name of Confucius - who was a guy who was supposed to know his vegetables - once issued an edict that any time he saw a sap sittin'' around bein'' impervious to the weather an'' anything else that was goin'', an'' lookin'' like he had been hit in the kisser with a flat-iron, the said sap was suffering from woman trouble.

I reckon Confucius musta been thinkin'' of me.

In his seventh adventure ''G'' man Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of a prominent scientist. His search leads Lemmy to notorious gangster Enrico Pranzetti, and straight into a trap . . .

Your Deal, My Lovely was originally published in 1941.

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