Dark Bahama | |
Author: | Peter Cheyney |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Language: | English |
Genre: | Thriller |
Publisher: | William Collins, Sons |
Release Date: | 1950 |
Media Type: | |
Pages: | 256 |
Preceded By: | You Can Call It a Day |
Followed By: | Lady, Behave! |
Dark Bahama is a 1950 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.[1] It was the second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer.[2] The story also features Quale, the head of British intelligence who appears on several other novels by Cheyney.[3] Much of the action takes place in a fictional island in the Bahamas and nearby Miami in Florida.[4]
Johnny Vallon, head of Chennault Investigations, sends out one of his men to the West Indies to bring back a headstrong daughter of a wealthy family. However, things soon to be much more complex and treacherous as they first appear.