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Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Marianne North and William Quiller Orchardson. A baronet in debt, a secretary with ferret eyes, and a young man convicted of a crime his family knows he did not commit. Le Queux wrote over a hundred and fifty thrillers and had a genuine ear for the way blackmail is actually conducted — by hints, in comfortable rooms. The appeal chapters turn on a piece of evidence that everyone concerned would rather not produce. Fifty-nine plates of painting, including works by William Quiller Orchardson and John Atkinson Grimshaw, range from 1829 to 1915 and dwell on the quiet English interiors, coastal towns and low-tide harbours where Le Queux's blackmailers do their work.
Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Marianne North and William Quiller Orchardson. A baronet in debt, a secretary with ferret eyes, and a young man convicted of a crime his family knows he did not commit. Le Queux wrote over a hundred and fifty thrillers a...
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William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and novelist born in London. He was a foreign correspondent, an early wireless experimenter, and a tireless self-publicist who insisted he had served as a secret agent. His works include The Great War in England in 1897, Spies of the Kaiser, The Pauper of Park Lane, and Whoso Findeth a Wife.
William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and novelist born in London. He was a foreign correspondent, an early wireless experimenter, and a tireless self-publicist who insisted he had served as a secret agent. His works include The Great War in England in 1897, Spies of the Kai...
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