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William Le Queux: 100+ Mystery & Espionage Thrillers
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William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage.
Novels
The Great War in England in 1897
The Invasion of 1910
Guilty Bonds
Zoraida
The Temptress
The Great White Queen
Devil's Dice
Whoso Findeth a Wife
The Eye of Istar
If Sinners Entice Thee
The Bond of Black
The Day of Temptation
The Veiled Man
The Wiles of the Wicked
An Eye for an Eye
In White Raiment
Of Royal Blood
Her Majesty's Minister
The Under-Secretary
The Seven Secrets
As We Forgive Them
The Sign of the Stranger
The Hunchback of Westminster
The Closed Book
The Czar's Spy
Behind the Throne
The Pauper of Park Lane
The Mysterious Mr. Miller
Whatsoever a Man Soweth
The Great Court Scandal
The Lady in the Car
The House of Whispers
The Red Room
Spies of the Kaiser
The Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel)
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
The Death-Doctor
The Lost Million
The Price of Power
Her Royal Highness
The White Lie
The Four Faces
The Sign of Silence
The Mysterious Three
At the Sign of the Sword
The Mystery of the Green Ray
Number 70, Berlin
The Way to Win
The Broken Thread
The Place of Dragons
The Zeppelin Destroyer
Sant of the Secret Service
The Stolen Statesman
The Doctor of Pimlico
Whither Thou Goest
The Intriguers
The Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London)
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
This House to Let
The Golden Face
The Stretton Street Affair
The Voice from the Void
Short Story Collections
Stolen Souls
The Count's Chauffeur
The Bomb-Makers
The Gay Triangle
William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage.
Novels
The Great War in England in 1897
The Invasion of 1910
Guilty Bonds
Zoraida
The Temptress
The Great White Queen
Devil's Dice
Whoso Findeth a Wife
The Eye of Istar
If Sinners Entice Thee
The Bond of Black
The Day of Temptation
The Veiled Man
The Wiles of the Wicked
An Eye for an Eye
In White Raiment
Of Royal Blood
Her Majesty's Minister
The Under-Secretary
The Seven Secrets
As We Forgive Them
The Sign of the Stranger
The Hunchback of Westminster
The Closed Book
The Czar's Spy
Behind the Throne
The Pauper of Park Lane
The Mysterious Mr. Miller
Whatsoever a Man Soweth
The Great Court Scandal
The Lady in the Car
The House of Whispers
The Red Room
Spies of the Kaiser
The Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel)
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
The Death-Doctor
The Lost Million
The Price of Power
Her Royal Highness
The White Lie
The Four Faces
The Sign of Silence
The Mysterious Three
At the Sign of the Sword
The Mystery of the Green Ray
Number 70, Berlin
The Way to Win
The Broken Thread
The Place of Dragons
The Zeppelin Destroyer
Sant of the Secret Service
The Stolen Statesman
The Doctor of Pimlico
Whither Thou Goest
The Intriguers
The Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London)
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
This House to Let
The Golden Face
The Stretton Street Affair
The Voice from the Void
Short Story Collections
Stolen Souls
The Count's Chauffeur
The Bomb-Makers
The Gay Triangle
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Published October 6, 2017
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About the author
William Le Queux
477 books31 followersNovelist William Tufnell Le Queux was born in London on 2 July 1864. His father, also William of Chateauroux, Indre, was a French draper's assistant and his mother was English.
He was educated in Europe and studied art under Ignazio Spiridon in Paris. He walked extensively in France and Germany and supported himself for a time writing for French newspapers. It was one of his sensational stories in The Petit Journal that attracted the attention of the French novelist Emile Zola and it was supposedly he who encouraged Le Queux to become a full-time writer.
In the late 1880s he returned to London where he edited the Gossip and Piccadilly magazines before joining the staff of The Globe newspaper in 1891 as a parliamentary reporter. But he resigned in 1893 and decided to abandon journalism to concentrate on writing and travelling. And his extensive travelling saw him visit Russia, the Near East, North Africa, Egypt and the Sudan and in 1912–13 he was a correspondent in the Balkan War for the Daily Mail. On his travels he found it necessary to become an expert revolver shot.
His first book was Guilty Bonds (1891), which concentrated on political conspiracy in Russia to such a degree that it was subsequently banned in that country. A series of short stories Strange Tales of a Nihilist followed in 1892 and from then on he was producing books on a regular basis until his death, and beyond, as a number of posthumous works were published.
His works mainly related to espionage activity and it was said that he was employed for a number of years as a member of the British Secret Service, where he was an expert on wireless transmission. He did claim to have been the first wireless experimenter to have broadcast from his station at Guildford in 1920/21 and he was president of the Wireless Experimental Association and a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
He stated at one time that he began writing to help finance his work for British Intelligence for whom he was required to undertake much travelling and to make personal contact with royalty and other high-ranking people. He recorded some of the latter meetings in his autobiography entitled Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks (1923).
He was at one time Consul of the Republic of San Marino and he possessed Italian, Serbian and Montenegrin decorations. He was also a keen collector of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals.
However, all his activities did not stop him turning out novel after novel and at the time of his death he had well over 100 books to his credit.
After several weeks' illness, he died at Knocke, Belgium, in the early hours of 13 October 1927. His body was returned to England and on 19 October he was cremated at Golders Green with the Reverend Francis Taylor of Bedford conducting the service, which was attended by Le Queux's brother and a few intimate friends. (Gerry Wolstenholme, January 2013)
He was educated in Europe and studied art under Ignazio Spiridon in Paris. He walked extensively in France and Germany and supported himself for a time writing for French newspapers. It was one of his sensational stories in The Petit Journal that attracted the attention of the French novelist Emile Zola and it was supposedly he who encouraged Le Queux to become a full-time writer.
In the late 1880s he returned to London where he edited the Gossip and Piccadilly magazines before joining the staff of The Globe newspaper in 1891 as a parliamentary reporter. But he resigned in 1893 and decided to abandon journalism to concentrate on writing and travelling. And his extensive travelling saw him visit Russia, the Near East, North Africa, Egypt and the Sudan and in 1912–13 he was a correspondent in the Balkan War for the Daily Mail. On his travels he found it necessary to become an expert revolver shot.
His first book was Guilty Bonds (1891), which concentrated on political conspiracy in Russia to such a degree that it was subsequently banned in that country. A series of short stories Strange Tales of a Nihilist followed in 1892 and from then on he was producing books on a regular basis until his death, and beyond, as a number of posthumous works were published.
His works mainly related to espionage activity and it was said that he was employed for a number of years as a member of the British Secret Service, where he was an expert on wireless transmission. He did claim to have been the first wireless experimenter to have broadcast from his station at Guildford in 1920/21 and he was president of the Wireless Experimental Association and a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
He stated at one time that he began writing to help finance his work for British Intelligence for whom he was required to undertake much travelling and to make personal contact with royalty and other high-ranking people. He recorded some of the latter meetings in his autobiography entitled Things I Know about Kings, Celebrities and Crooks (1923).
He was at one time Consul of the Republic of San Marino and he possessed Italian, Serbian and Montenegrin decorations. He was also a keen collector of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals.
However, all his activities did not stop him turning out novel after novel and at the time of his death he had well over 100 books to his credit.
After several weeks' illness, he died at Knocke, Belgium, in the early hours of 13 October 1927. His body was returned to England and on 19 October he was cremated at Golders Green with the Reverend Francis Taylor of Bedford conducting the service, which was attended by Le Queux's brother and a few intimate friends. (Gerry Wolstenholme, January 2013)
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