It Couldn't Matter Less
 First edition | |
| Author | Peter Cheyney |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Slim Callaghan |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | William Collins, Sons |
Publication date | 1941 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | You Can't Keep the Change |
| Followed by | Sorry You've Been Troubled |
It Couldn't Matter Less is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan who enjoyed a series of dangerous adventures similar in style to the hardboiled American detectives created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It was published in the United States as Set-Up for Murder.
Synopsis
[edit | edit source]Callaghan is persuaded by Inspector Gringall of Scotland Yard to meet with Doria Varette a torch singer in a nightclub. She hires Callaghan to look for her missing boyfriend Lionel Wilbery. Before long Callaghan realise he has got into a case that is far more complex than it first seems.
Film adaptation
[edit | edit source]In 1955 it was adapted into the French film More Whiskey for Callaghan directed by Willy Rozier and starring Tony Wright, Magali Vendeuil and Robert Berri.[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Goble p.82
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- 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.
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