It Couldn't Matter Less

It Couldn't Matter Less

First edition
Author	Peter Cheyney
Language	English
Series	Slim Callaghan
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	William Collins, Sons
Publication date	1941
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print
Preceded by	You Can't Keep the Change
Followed by	Sorry You've Been Troubled

It Couldn't Matter Less is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It is the fourth in a series of novels featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan who enjoyed a series of dangerous adventures similar in style to the hardboiled American detectives created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. It was published in the United States as Set-Up for Murder.

Callaghan is persuaded by Inspector Gringall of Scotland Yard to meet with Doria Varette a torch singer in a nightclub. She hires Callaghan to look for her missing boyfriend Lionel Wilbery. Before long Callaghan realise he has got into a case that is far more complex than it first seems.

In 1955 it was adapted into the French film More Whiskey for Callaghan directed by Willy Rozier and starring Tony Wright, Magali Vendeuil and Robert Berri.^[1]

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Magill, Frank Northen. Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Authors, Volume 1. Salem Press, 1988.

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