Can Ladies Kill?

Can Ladies Kill?

"Can Ladies Kill?" is a crime novel by British author Peter Cheyney first published in 1938 by William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd. Set in San Francisco and featuring Cheyney's creation, G man Lemmy Caution, it belongs to the hardboiled school of crime writing.

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*Vera Caspary: "Bedelia" (1945) (wicked woman / femme fatale)
*Raymond Chandler: "Farewell, My Lovely" (1940) (changing identities)
*Jonathan Latimer: "The Lady in the Morgue" (1936) (another female body in another mortuary)
*Mickey Spillane: "I, the Jury" (1947) (vigilantism / bypassing due process of law)

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*FBI portrayal in the media


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