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Overview: Slim Callaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney. Like another of Cheyney’s characters, the FBI agent Lemmy Caution, he was constructed as a British response to the more hardboiled detectives of American fiction such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
After making his debut in the 1938 novel The Urgent Hangman he featured in six further novels and a number of short stories. The novels were all bestsellers. The character has also appeared in a variety of film, television, radio and stage adaptations.
Operating out of an office in Mayfair’s Berkeley Square he frequently encounters attractive, but deceitful femmes fatales. Callaghan has been described as a "suave, handsome, resourceful, Mayfair-based private detective who is Irish – the nationality was perhaps a tease for Cheyney’s patriotic critics".[
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. The Urgent Hangman (1938)
Callaghan was five feet ten and thin. He had sevenpence halfpenny and a heavy smoker’s cough. His arms were a little too long for his height and his face was surprising.
Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father’s money. But when the old man is murdered, the only suspect with no alibi and a giant motive is Cynthis.
Slim always played his cases the way they came, but it turned out the Meraulton job had more twists than a hangman’s rope.
2. Dangerous Curves (1939)
Callaghan awoke and looked at the ceiling. His lips were dry and his tongue felt like a yellow plush sofa. Outside he could hear the rain pattering on the windows. He looked at his wrist-watch. It was eight o’clock.
Vivacious Mrs. Riverton has hired Slim to find her missing stepson, whom she admits she hates.
A dame has to have more than beauty and breeding to stop Slim Callaghan doing things his way. Mrs. Riverton has plenty of both, but when she begins to interfere in Slim’s search, things start to hot up.
Slim’s motto is: ‘We get there somehow and who the hell cares’. The problem is that someone does . . .’
3. You Can’t Keep the Change (1940)
All sorts and conditions of ladies and gentlemen found their way into the expensively furnished, well-appointed Ventura Club. You could get anything you liked there if you knew how to ask for it.
Slim Callaghan is called to Devonshire to investigate a burglary at Margraud Manor, where valuable jewels – heirlooms of the Vendayne family insured for £100,000 – have disappeared.
With his assistant, Windemere Nikolls, he discovers some startling facts – particularly about the lovely Esme Vendayne – and the mystery leads Callaghan to a shady London nightclub and a violent underworld.
4. Sorry You’ve Been Troubled (1942) aka Farewell to the Admiral
Slim Callaghan, of Callaghan Investigations, the world famous detective and connoisseur of women, is at work again. Ruthless, tough, cynical, Slim was just getting wise to the game of Nicky Starata, an overly-smooth poker player, when he got involved in the mysterious Admiral Gardell case.
No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate – but they had to like it. A £40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful dames and possibly a fake suicide were at stake.
Callaghan’s motto was, ‘We get there somehow and who the hell cares how’. He got there and got himself a client, eventually – an exquisitely lovely one . . .
5. It Couldn’t Matter Less (1941)
It’s wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie’s Place.
Callaghan knows Gringall has something up his sleeve. And when, backstage, Doria asks him to take on a job – to find her boyfriend Lionel Wilbery, a poet with the wrong friends and a drug problem – Callaghan finds Gringall has more than a missing person in his sights.
6. They Never Say When (1944)
Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case – even for him. A Mrs Paula Denys says she paid a man to steal the priceless Denys Coronet from her husband’s safe. Now the thief won’t hand over the goods and is attempting to blackmail her.
Callaghan solves the problem for his client but, too late, discovers the alluring Mrs Denys might be taking him for a ride. Callaghan is determined to get to the bottom of it all – but will curiosity kill the cat this time?
7. Uneasy Terms (1946)
If you have nerve enough to kill someone, you have nerve enough for anything.
Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the murder of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential danger when she drafted the will – which prevented any of her daughters being married strictly for her fortune.
But no case is too intriguing for shrewd detective Slim Callaghan, who stirs up seemingly calm waters in the tiny village of Alfriston, leaving chaos in his wake and a stunningly solved puzzle at the adventure’s thrilling close.
Dance Without Music (1947)
Private investigator Caryl O’Hara’s reputation, precedes him. Fresh off a challenging divorce investigation, Lenore Ivory, a desperate woman seeking justice, walks through the door of his office.
Lenore was once married to a conniving scoundrel who preys on wealthy women for financial gain. Having divorced him, her former husband has eyes for her dear friend, the wealthy Esmeralda.
Fearing for Esmeralda’s safety, Lenore implores O’Hara to confront the vile slimeball and issue a stern warning. Reluctantly, O’Hara refuses to take on the case.
Little does he know that Esmeralda’s life is spiraling out of control. Struggling with a crippling heroin addiction, she finds herself penniless and on the brink of self-destruction. When her husband is found murdered, all signs point to Esmeralda as the prime suspect. O’Hara’s instincts kick into high gear as he realizes he can’t stay on the sidelines any longer.
Calling Mr. Callaghan (1953)
No investigation is too audacious for Callaghan, who finds time, in Calling Mr. Callaghan and between the obligations of booze and broads, to solve twelve piquant mysteries. He is aided of course by the redoubtable Windemere Nikolls and loyal secretary Effie Thompson.
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