Dark Duet (1942)

by Peter Cheyney

Series: The Dark Series (1)

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'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet. And the trouble with Michael Kane, hero of this spy thriller, is that he never plays cricket with Nazi spies ... 'Dark Duet seems to me damn good' Raymond Chandler… (more)

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Cheyney wrote a British version of hardboiled crime/espionage; this one is a set of 4 stories about two professional killers. The "Dark" series all have "Dark" in the title but are not closely linked as a series from what I recall. (

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Hiljaiset tappajat

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Dark Duet

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The Counterspy Murders

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1942

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Ernest Guelvada

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'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet. And the trouble with Michael Kane, hero of this spy thriller, is that he never plays cricket with Nazi spies ... 'Dark Duet seems to me damn good' Raymond Chandler

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