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Nikolls held out two glasses.

'Which is it goin' to be?' he said. 'Seltzer or the hair of the dog?'

Callaghan took the whisky.

Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case - even for him. A Mrs Paula Denys says she paid a man... Read Full Overview

In a world where shadows loom larger than life, Slim Callaghan, private detective, finds himself ensnared in a web more tangled than any he's encountered before. "They Never Say When" thrusts Callaghan into the murky depths of deception and greed, courtesy of a client whose... Read Full Overview

A jangling telephone interrupts a long-awaited country holiday. Slim Callaghan and his sidekick Windy are summoned from their fun and games to investigate murder and mystery. The BBC is producing the late Peter Cheyney's first two 1940s Callaghan mysteries, Urgent Hangman and... Read Full Overview