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Ladies Won't Wait
AuthorPeter Cheyney
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy Thriller
PublisherWilliam Collins, Sons

Publication date

1951
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Preceded bySinister Errand 

Ladies Won't Wait is a 1951 spy thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It is a sequel to the 1945 novel Sinister Errand and portrays the continued adventures of Michael Kells, a half-American, half-British secret agent.[2] It was published in the United States under the alternative title Cocktails and the Killer.

Synopsis[edit]

InFrance while waiting for his next mission, Kells encounters an attractive fellow agent who, not long after using the code phrase "ladies won't wait" is found dead. This puts him on the trail of an East German scientist attempting to defect to the West and a ruthless Soviet female agent determined to stop him at all costs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reilly p.300
  • ^ Panek p.178
  • Bibliography[edit]


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