Dance Without Music by Peter Cheyney, 1947, 1st edition, Vintage Hardback Novel

Dance Without Music by Peter Cheyney, 1947, 1st edition, published by Collins, London. Hardback, 192 pages

This vintage mystery novel is in fairly good condition - the original dust-jacket has some tears along the edges, including a tear across the C in Dance. There is also some small creases along the edges, a small section of the bottom of the spine is missing. The spine is also a little discoloured.
Inside there is a name on the front flysheet from 1947.
Otherwise there is no writing, tearing, creasing or dog-earing.

19cm x 13cm x 2cm approx.

Blurb reads:
"Being a private detective is a strange sort of business. A business which sometimes attracts odd types. it has always seemed to me that the primary attraction to the profession is a desire for adventure, for an irregular, sometimes boring boring, and occasionally exciting life." So writes Caryl O'Hara, introducing Peter Cheyney's 27th novel and himself as a new addition to Cheyney's list of well-loved detective characters.
"This is the story," he continues, "of Leonora Ivory, of Alexis and Esmerelda Ricaud, of John Eipton Pell and a few other people who came into it, said their little piece and walked - or were pushed - out again. It is also a part of my life because I handled the Ivory business. Cheyney has written it pretty well as I told it to him. He has found it necessary to alter names..."
And so we accompany Caryl O'Hara up to his office on the evening of a day on which he had been giving evidence in a peculiarly unsavoury divorce case, a case in which Counsel had been a little unpleasant. But Caryl's evidence had clinched the case. And he was due to draw £1000. He fancied he'd take a bit of a holiday - until he opened his office door, found the light on, and seated in the armchair in front of his desk... "This, I thought, is the end of a perfect day." Maybe it was, but it was also the beginning of a perfect case, probably the most perfect case that Mr Cheyney, with as good an eye for a pretty plot as for a pretty woman, has ever devised.

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