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 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 Lovelywas originally published in 1941.''Peter Cheyney is the Damon Runyon of crime''The Times