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  • A WOMAN'S DEBT
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    A WOMAN'S DEBT
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "“You're a lucky chap, Croxton, to have got the measure of the old man so well. I don’t suppose it will be long before you blossom into a partner.” The speaker, Archie Brookes, a slim elegant young fellow, very good-looking but with a somewhat effeminate expression, cast a sidelong glance at his companion as he uttered the remark, to observe covertly what impression it...

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  • THE LOST MILLIONS
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    THE LOST MILLIONS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    The narrator meets a strange, old man on a cruise, on his way home back to England. The old man gets sick, so the young narrator befriends him. When they return to England, the narrator visits him daily, at his hotel. He is disturbed to discover the man has become much worse and is dying. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE HUNCHBACK OF WESTMINSTER
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    THE HUNCHBACK OF WESTMINSTER
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "It was in the second year of my practice as a private detective that young José Casteno came to my office in Stanton Street, WC, and entrusted me with that strange and terrible mission in regard to which I have really hesitated, in all sincerity, for some days before I could actually nerve myself to take the public into my confidence. Up to that time, I remember, my b...

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  • IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE
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    IF SINNERS ENTICE THEE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    At its core, "If Sinners Entice Thee" is a celebration of the power of determination and bravery. Through the daring and resourceful character of Ralph Thetford, Le Queux demonstrates the importance of standing up for what is right, even in the face of overwhelming odds. Whether you are a fan of mystery, suspense, or simply love a good adventure, "If Sinners Entice Thee" is sur...

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  • THE BOMB MAKERS
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    THE BOMB MAKERS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    In the novel 'The Bomb-Makers' by William Le Queux, readers are transported to a world of espionage and intrigue, where even the most innocent-looking people could be harboring dark secrets. The story begins in a dingy restaurant in Soho, where Theodore Drost and his friend Ernst Ortmann are discussing the danger posed by Theodore's daughter Ella. As a rising star in London's r...

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  • THE INVASION OF 1910, WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LONDON
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    THE INVASION OF 1910, WITH A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LONDON
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    What if German forces landed on the east coast of England and advanced on London while the British were struggling to mount a counter-attack? That’s premise of William Le Queux’s The Invasion of 1910, one of the most popular “invasion fiction” novels of all time. The novel revolves around Germany’s rising naval power and its threat to a weak Britain, unprepared for war politica...

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  • THE GAMBLERS
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    THE GAMBLERS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    A crime novel set in the south of France where a gambler wins plenty of money only to have it removed from him with fatal consequences. The narrator of the novel, Carmela Rosselli, was friendly with the gambler and when he is discovered in her room she sets about trying to discover who caused him harm. Her quest takes her all over the fashionable south of France, on a cruise ar...

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  • THE GREAT GOD GOLD
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    THE GREAT GOD GOLD
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    This is a mystery novel written by the exotically named English author William le Queux. He had an English mother and a French father. The story has an intriguing opening in which the author suggests that the reader will learn a real secret that is true. The first chapter describes the death of a strange man, watched by an equally strange doctor in a shabby room in Paris. ...

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  • THE WAY TO WIN
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    THE WAY TO WIN
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "I do not think anyone who has studied the progress of the War with care and patience can deny that, during the past few months, a mighty change has come over the aspect of the great struggle. A year ago, when I wrote “Britain’s Deadly Peril,” the fortunes of the Allies appeared to be at the lowest ebb. Indomitable energy and perseverance have since worked wonders. To-...

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  • THE WHITE LIE
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    THE WHITE LIE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    "The White Lie" (1915) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux’s career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The White Lie is a story of espionage, mystery, and murder. Using his own research and experience as a journalist and adventurer, Le Queux crafts an accessible, entertaining tale for readers in search of a lite...

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  • THE GAY TRIANGLE: THE ROMANCE OF THE FIRST AIR ADVENTURES
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    THE GAY TRIANGLE: THE ROMANCE OF THE FIRST AIR ADVENTURES
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    A Great insight to the Romance and day to day aviation lives of our first Air Adventurers. Strong characterization and lively action in the interwar period, this is an unexpected gem. (Amazon) ...

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  • THE GREAT WHITE QUEEN: A TALE OF TREASURE AND TREASON
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    THE GREAT WHITE QUEEN: A TALE OF TREASURE AND TREASON
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Pure fun and adventure! An easy read with a few surprising turns. Think India Jones and you'll have the right feel. If you're looking for a good winter or summer curl up read, this is it! (Amazon) ...

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  • STOLEN SOULS
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    STOLEN SOULS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Russian nihilists, dangerous dames, exotic poisons, deception, hypnotism and murder are just some of the elements in this collection of short stories, published early in Le Queux's career. Most of the plots involve pre-Hitchcockian heroes being duped by a various cast of cosmopolitan femme fatales with different agendas, not always iniquitous in nature. The storytelling is fast...

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  • THE INTRIGUERS
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    THE INTRIGUERS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    An extravagant tale of political schemers. The hero, an Italian violinist, finds himself, after a phenomenal rise to success, placed in high society in the Russian court of Alexander III and used in a counter-plot to foil a design against the Czar's life. He succeeds and wins a charming Russian princess. ...

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  • THE STOLEN STATESMAN: BEING THE STORY OF A HUSHED UP MYSTERY
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    THE STOLEN STATESMAN: BEING THE STORY OF A HUSHED UP MYSTERY
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    A fairly interesting mystery, with Le Queux's usual emphasis on romance. Still in all a good tale-what happened to the brilliant statesman and why did it happen? (Amazon) ...

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  • THE LADY IN THE CAR
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    THE LADY IN THE CAR
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Fun story collection about an upper-class conman who seduces rich women by taking them for a drive in his flashy motors. A polished frequenter of the most exclusive hotels and known variously as 'his Highness Prince Albert of Hesse-Holstein, alias Charles Fotheringham, alias Henry Tremlett,' as well as other names besides, the phoney prince and his cronies, including the Rev. T...

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  • NUMBER 70,: A STORY OF BRITAIN'S PERIL
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    NUMBER 70,: A STORY OF BRITAIN'S PERIL
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Written and set inthe First World War, Jack thinks he has discovered a German spy. He goes to see his best friend a spy catcher to ask him his advice and finds that he is dying in suspicious circumstances. Jack then gets accused of being a German spy. (Goodreads) ...

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  • RASPUTIN THE RASCAL MONK
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    RASPUTIN THE RASCAL MONK
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    "Rasputin the Rascal Monk" (1917) is a work of historical nonfiction by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux’s career as a leading author of popular thrillers, Rasputin the Rascal Monk indulges in the paranoid atmosphere of the First World War to weave a sinister tale of espionage and political conspiracy. Toward the end of the First World W...

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  • HER ROYAL HIGHNESS: A ROMANCE OF THE CHANCELLERIES OF EUROPE
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    HER ROYAL HIGHNESS: A ROMANCE OF THE CHANCELLERIES OF EUROPE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "A large, square wooden veranda covered by a red and white awning, above a wide silent sweep of flowing river, whose huge rocks, worn smooth through a thousand ages, raised their backs about the stream, a glimpse of green feathery palms and flaming scarlet poinsettias on the island opposite, and beyond the great drab desert, the illimitable waste of stony, undulating s...

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  • THE PAUPER OF PARK LANE
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    THE PAUPER OF PARK LANE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "“There’s some mystery about that girl—I’m certain of it.” “What makes you suspect that?” “Well, first, she’s evidently a lady—the daughter of a man who has come down in the world most probably: and secondly—” “Ah! You mean the secret lover—the man who was here yesterday and bought a twenty-guinea evening gown of her to send to his sister—eh?” exclaimed Mr Warner, “buy...

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  • THE CLOSED BOOK: CONCERNING THE SECRET OF THE BORGIAS
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    THE CLOSED BOOK: CONCERNING THE SECRET OF THE BORGIAS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    In an improbable twist, an Englishman resident in Italy becomes the possessor of an old book of account from a renaissance adventurer turned priest. From the moment he purchases this book from an old monastery, he ends up beset by danger. Determined to solve the mystery of the book and the dangerous happenings around him, he travels from Italy to England in pursuit of the secre...

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  • THE HOUSE OF WHISPERS
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    THE HOUSE OF WHISPERS
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    A remarkable mystery story in which valuables disappear from locked safes; written and whispered warnings come out of nowhere and a murder is committed behind locked doors--all in a modern New York apartment. "Full of arresting situations and making a strong appeal at every stage to the instinct of curiosity." ...

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  • THE SIGN OF SILENCE
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    THE SIGN OF SILENCE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he is asked by his friend, Sir Digby Kemsley – a very famous railroad engineer, to come to his flat to discuss something although Kemsley is quite mysterious on the tel...

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  • THE BROKEN THREAD
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    THE BROKEN THREAD
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "“No. I mean the girl in black. The one leading the pom.” “By jove! Yes. She’s uncommonly smart, isn’t she?” “Her friend isn’t half bad-looking, either?” “I don’t think so very much of her, Raife. But Southport at this time of year is always full of pretty girls.” “Not one of them can compare with the girl in black—she’s ripping!” declared Raife Remington, a tall, well...

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  • SANT OF THE SECRET SERVICE: SOME REVELATIONS OF SPIES AND SPYING
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    SANT OF THE SECRET SERVICE: SOME REVELATIONS OF SPIES AND SPYING
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Originally published in 1918 as "Sant of the Secret Service," this novel describes the ongoing adventures of Gerry Sant--spy for the allied forces during the First World War. He's "cheerful, optimistic and modest;" he often telephones for the assistance of Gabrielle Soyez, female agent of the British Secret Service, to carry out surveillance and sometimes to infiltrate the enem...

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  • THE CZAR'S SPY: THE MYSTERY OF A SILENT LOVE
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    THE CZAR'S SPY: THE MYSTERY OF A SILENT LOVE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    "The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of Silent Love" (1905) is an espionage adventure novel by Anglo-French writer William Le Queux. Published at the beginning of Le Queux's career as a leading author of popular thrillers, The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of Silent Love is a story of international espionage, mystery, and forbidden romance. Using his own research and experience as a journali...

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  • AN EYE FOR AN EYE
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    AN EYE FOR AN EYE
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    "An Eye for an Eye": The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans „many of them starved, beaten and tortured” and estimates that „more th...

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  • THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
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    THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM FROM WITHIN
    ANONYMOUS INTR. WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "The amazing ramifications of the German spy system in England are, unfortunately, not even today fully realised by the British public, or admitted by the Government. In face of the hard facts contained in this book, in face of the serious statements of Members in the House of Commons, and in face of what the public are themselves daily reporting to the "authorities," ...

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  • THE STRETTON STREET AFFAIR
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    THE STRETTON STREET AFFAIR
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Mr. Le Queux breaks all records for speed and thrills. And he tells you, too, about orosin, that newly discovered poison, a drop of which, on cigar or cigarette, renders the smoker unconscious. A gripping detective and mystery story. Every page presents a baffling situation, and all lead to the most unusual climax of the times. ...

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  • THE RED ROOM
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    THE RED ROOM
    WILLIAM LE QUEUX
    Excerpt: "The fifteenth of January, 1907, fell on a Tuesday. I have good cause to remember it. In this narrative of startling fact there is little that concerns myself. It is mostly of the doings of others—strange doings though they were, and stranger still, perhaps, that I should be their chronicler. On that Tuesday morning, just after eleven o’clock, I was busy taking down th...

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