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William Le Queux

The Stretton Street AffairWilliam Le Queux The Stretton Street Affair PROLOGUE IS ABOUT MYSELF The whole circumstances of the Stretton Street Affair were so complicated and so amazing from start to finish that, had the facts been related to me, I confess I should never have for a moment given the...

The Mystery of the Green RayWilliam Le Queux The Mystery of the Green Ray CHAPTER I. BESIDE STILL WATERS The youth in the multi-coloured blazer laughed.“You’d have to come and be a nurse,” he suggested.“Oh, I’d go as a drummer-boy. I’d look fine in uniform, wouldn’t I?” the waitress simpered in r...

German Atrocities. A Record of Shameless DeedsWilliam le Queux German Atrocities / A Record of Shameless Deeds PREFACETHIS fearful and disgraceful record of a Nation’s shame and of an Emperor’s complicity in atrocious crimes against God and man is no work of fiction, but a plain unvarnished state...

The Great War in England in 1897PREFACE TO NINTH EDITIONCRITICISM BY LORD ROBERTSPREFACE TO FIRST EDITIONBOOK I. THE INVASIONCHAPTER I. THE SHADOW OF MOLOCH CHAPTER II. A TOTTERING EMPIRE CHAPTER III. ARMING FOR THE STRUGGLE CHAPTER IV. THE SPY CHAPTER V. BOMBARDMENT OF NEWHAVEN CHAPTER VI. LANDI...

The Place of Dragons: A MysteryLe Queux William The Place of Dragons: A Mystery CHAPTER I PRESENTS A PROBLEM "Curious affair, isn't it?""Very.""Now, you're a bit of a mystery-monger, Vidal. What's your theory – eh?""I haven't one," I replied with a smile."I knew the old boy quite well by sight. D...

The Sign of SilenceLe Queux William The Sign of Silence CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES A GENTLEMAN "Then it's an entire mystery?""Yes, Phrida.""But it's astounding! It really seems so utterly impossible," declared my well-beloved, amazed at what I had just related."I've simply stated hard facts.""But ther...

This House to LetLe Queux William This House to Let Prologue Very early on a July morning in 1919 Constable Brown was on his beat in Kensington, in the immediate neighbourhood of Cathcart Square.Cathcart Square was an old-fashioned backwater of this highly respectable suburb. It had not been buil...

The Lost MillionLe Queux William The Lost Million Chapter One Describes a Man and his Secret “See! It’s – it’s in my kit-bag, over there! The thing – the Thing at which the whole world will stand aghast!”The thin, white-faced, grey-bearded man lying on his back in bed roused himself with difficul...

The Seven SecretsLe Queux William The Seven Secrets THE SEVEN SECRETS CHAPTER I. INTRODUCES AMBLER JEVONS “Ah! You don’t take the matter at all seriously!” I observed, a trifle annoyed.“Why should I?” asked my friend, Ambler Jevons, with a deep pull at his well-coloured briar. “What you’ve told m...

Stolen SoulsLe Queux William Stolen Souls Chapter One. The Soul of Princess Tchikhatzoff Wrapped in furs until only my nose and eyes were visible, I was walking along the Nevski Prospekt in St. Petersburg one winter’s evening, and almost involuntarily turned into the Dominique, that fashionable r...