- Born
- Died
- Birth nameReginald Southouse Cheyney
- Nicknames
- Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse Cheyney
- P. Cheyney
- Peter Cheyney was born on February 22, 1896 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Callaghan remet ça (1961), Diplomatic Courier (1952) and Uneasy Terms (1948). He died on June 26, 1951 in London, England, UK.
- Crime novelist and creator of private detective Lemmy Caution.
- Based his hard-boiled detective stories on his experience as a police reporter and crime investigator in the 1920s.
- Military service in World War I, invalided out in 1917.
- His pulp detective novels were very popular with members of the armed forces during World War II, which may have compensated for the generally bad reviews he received from critics throughout his career. However, he was a keen supporter of the British Union of Fascists before the war, something he was keen to play down in later years.
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