Slim Callaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney.[1] Like another of Cheyney's characters, the FBI agent Lemmy Caution, he was constructed as a British response to the more hardboiled detectives of American fiction such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
After making his debut in the 1938 novel The Urgent Hangman he featured in six further novels and a number of short stories. The novels were all bestsellers. The character has also appeared in a variety of film, television, radio and stage adaptations. The novels enjoyed particular popularity in France[2] where actor Tony Wright played Callaghan in three film adaptations.[3] Other actors to portray Callaghan include Michael Rennie, Derrick De Marney and Viktor de Kowa who played him in the 1964 German television series Slim Callaghan Intervenes.
Operating out of an office in Mayfair's Berkeley Square he frequently encounters attractive, but deceitful femmes fatales. Callaghan has been described as a "suave, handsome, resourceful, Mayfair-based private detective who is Irish – the nationality was perhaps a tease for Cheyney's patriotic critics".[4]
SlimCallaghan is a fictional London-based private detective created by the writer Peter Cheyney. Like another of Cheyney's characters, the FBI agent Lemmy...
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Cheyney novel). Another popular creation was the private detective SlimCallaghan who also appeared in a series of novels and subsequent film adaptations...
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the square. One of Peter Cheyney's main characters, private detective SlimCallaghan, had his office on Berkeley Square Berkeley Square is a typical prime...
Murder (1950, also producer) - Dagobert Brown Meet Mr. Callaghan (1954, also producer) - SlimCallaghan Private's Progress (1956) - Pat The March Hare (1956)...
Brook. It is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by Peter Cheyney. SlimCallaghan is a private eye whose client, Colonel Stenhurst, is murdered, leaving...
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Cheyney. It introduced the fictional London-based private detective SlimCallaghan, the first in a series of seven novels as well as two short story collections...
Lieutenant-Commander Stanford The Idol of Paris (1948) as Hertz Uneasy Terms (1948) as SlimCallaghan The Golden Madonna (1949) as Mike Christie Miss Pilgrim's Progress (1950)...
author Peter Cheyney. In Chapter 7 the hero, a private detective called SlimCallaghan, goes for a ride out on Pevensey Bay with the alluring murder suspect...
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Edward Morley Callaghan CC OOnt FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality...
known for his hardboiled crime thrillers featuring Lemmy Caution and SlimCallaghan, but this novel was his first fully-fledged espionage novel. The novel...
In 1964 he starred in the TV series SlimCallaghan Intervenes as Peter Cheyney's private detective SlimCallaghan. First married to actress Ursula Grabley...
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