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Between 1936 and 1951 Peter Cheyney wrote over forty books and was the highest paid novelist in Britain. In many respects he blazed a path for Ian Fleming and the brutal glamour of Bond. Today, Peter Cheyney is almost unknown, his books out of print. 'Cheyney Behave, ' recaptures a lost world and provides an eye-opening analysis of a popular culture we might prefer to forget. The book examines the importance of cigarettes and alcohol in Cheyney's world, his attitude to 'pansies', racism, women, and the jaw-dropping sexism of his age. It analyses the significance of Cheyney's 'Dark' series in...