William Le Queux: 261 books

Book cover of Rasputin the Rascal Monk: Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs With Official Documents Revealed and Recorded for the First Time
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The war has revealed many strange personalities in Europe, but surely none so sinister or so remarkable as that of the mock-monk Gregory Novikh—the middle-aged, uncleanly charlatan, now happily dead, whom Russia knew as Rasputin. As one whose duty it was before the war to travel extensively backwards...
Book cover of Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The place: The kerb in front of the Criterion at Piccadilly Circus. The time: Five minutes past three on a broiling afternoon in July. As an idle lounger, apparently absorbed in contemplation of the ceaseless tide of human traffic that ebbed and flowed, I stood gazing along the famous London thoroughfare....
Book cover of The Mystery of the Green Ray
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018

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 return. Dennis Burnham swallowed his liqueur in one savage gulp, pushed back his chair, and rose from the table.
Book cover of The House of Whispers
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018

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.
Book cover of The Eye of Istar

The Eye of Istar

A Romance of the Land of No Return

by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013

Obediently I approached her couch. Her breast rose, causing her diamonds to sparkle. During the past few days I had not failed to notice in her manner an entire change. She accorded me more liberty; she no longer placed her spiteful heel upon my neck as sign of triumph, and seldom she spoke to me...
Book cover of Guilty Bonds
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

My friend, Robert Nugent, a journalist, was young man, tall and dark, twenty-seven at the outside, with a pleasant, smiling face. His wavy hair, worn rather long, and negligence of attire gave him a dash of the genial good-for-nothing. It was in the card-room of that Bohemian—but, alas, now defunct—institution,...
Book cover of An Eye for An Eye
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013

A classic crime story from one of Britain's most prolific authors.
Book cover of The Red Room
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013

As for myself, I still carry on my garage in Chiswick, a business which, I am glad to say, is rapidly extending, though I confess it very nearly came to ruin in those dark, breathless days when I was seeking a solution of the remarkable problem of “The Red Room.”
Book cover of In White Raiment
by William le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Yes; it was utterly inexplicable. So strange, indeed, were all the circumstances, and so startling the adventures that befell me in my search after truth, that until to-day I have hesitated to relate the narrative, which is as extraordinary as it is unique in the history of any living man. If it were...
Book cover of German Atrocities: A Record of Shameless Deeds
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

THIS 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 statement of the grim and terrible work of the Kaiser’s Huns of Attila which I have considered it a duty to lay before...
Book cover of The Mystery of the Green Ray
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

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 return.
Book cover of Behind the Throne
by William le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016

A mystery and romance that takes place behind the scenes.
Book cover of Sant of the Secret Service
by William le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012

Cheerful, optimistic, and the most modest of men, Gerry Sant has seldom spoken of his own adventures. The son of a certain nobleman who must here remain nameless, and hence the scion of a noble house, he has graduated through all stages of the dark and devious ways of espionage.  You don't want to...
Book cover of The Mysterious Three
by William Le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018

We all got up from tea in the hall, made our way to the drawing-room, and thence into the morning-room, which opened out of it. There was plenty of daylight still. James came in after us, and went straight up to a framed panel portrait which stood with others on a small table in a remote corner. It...
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