''Sorry You've Been Troubled'' is a 1942

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by the British writer

Peter Cheyney Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy C ...

. It was the fifth book in his series featuring the

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-based

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Slim Callaghan 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 Ameri ...

. It was published in the United States under the

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of '' Farewell to the Admiral''.

Synopsis

Callaghan barges into a case involving a £40,000

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following a suspicious-looking suicide, despite the fact that he doesn't represent any client.

Film adaptation

It was made into a 1955 French film '' Your Turn, Callaghan'' directed by

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and starring Tony Wright, Lysiane Rey and Colette Ripert.Goble p.82

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Magill, Frank Northen. ''Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 1''. Salem Press, 1988. * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. * Server, Lee. ''Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers''. Infobase Publishing, 2014. 1942 British novels Novels by Peter Cheyney British thriller novels Novels set in London British crime novels British novels adapted into films William Collins, Sons books {{1940s-thriller-novel-stub