''Dark Bahama'' is a 1950

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspe ...

by the British writer

Peter Cheyney Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy C ...

. It was the second in a trilogy featuring the

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Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer. The story also features Quale, the head of British intelligence who appears on several other novels by Cheyney. Much of the action takes place in a fictional island in the

Bahamas The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic and island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. ...

and nearby

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.Panek p.178

Synopsis

Johnny Vallon, head of Chennault Investigations, sends out one of his men to the

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to bring back a headstrong daughter of a wealthy family. However, things soon to be much more complex and treacherous as they first appear.

References

Bibliography

* James, Russell. ''Great British Fictional Detectives''. Remember When, 21 Apr 2009. . * Panek, LeRoy. ''The Special Branch: The British Spy Novel, 1890-1980''. Popular Press, 1981. . * Reilly, John M. ''Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers''. Springer, 2015. . 1950 British novels Novels by Peter Cheyney British thriller novels Novels set in the Bahamas Novels set in London Novels set in Miami William Collins, Sons books {{1950s-thriller-novel-stub