title: Uneasy Terms (novel)
text: # Uneasy Terms (novel)
  
  Uneasy Terms is a 1946 crime thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney. It was the seventh and last in his series featuring the London-based private detective Slim Callaghan, a British version of the hardboiled heroes of American writing.
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  Callaghan encounter a case in a small country village near Alfriston where a wealthy woman may have been killed by any one of her three attractive daughters, furious about the terms of the new will she was drafting.
  
  ## Film adaptation
  
  In 1948 it was made into a British film of the same title directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Michael Rennie, Moira Lister and Joy Shelton.
  
  