William Le Queux (Gutenberg Index)

William Le Queux was the master of Edwardian suspense, and this collection gathers his most notorious works in one volume. Written during the golden age of spy fiction, these novels and stories pulse with the anxieties of a world racing toward the Great War. Le Queux drew on his own connections in diplomatic and intelligence circles to lend his tales an unsettling verisimilitude. The narratives crackle with secret treaties, foreign agents, and English aristocrats whose loyalties cannot be trusted. Here is adventure at its most deliciously paranoid, where every handshake might conceal a dagger and every dinner party could end in revelation. For readers who thrill to the ancestor of John le Carré and Graham Greene, this compilation offers pure period escape.