Dance Without Music is a 1947 thriller novel by the British writer Peter Cheyney.^[1] While Cheyney had gained his reputation with series about two celebrated characters Lemmy Caution and Slim Callaghan, he also wrote several popular stand-alone novels about hardboiled private detectives such as this.^[2] It was serialised in Britain by The News of the World. In the United States it was published by Dodd Mead in 1948.

Private detective Caryl Wylde O’Hara becomes drawn into a case involving a man and his heroin-addicted wife.

• Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.