William Le Queux (1864–1927)
Autor(a) de The Seven Secrets
About the Author
William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an extraordinarily prolific author. His writing career began in 1893 and his production of four or five novels a year was sustained unstintingly until his death. He led a life rich in social climbing and self-fantasy. He made a distinctive contribution not only to mostrar mais the highly charged atmosphere of pre-war Britain, but also to the emerging genre of spy fiction. Indeed Le Queux helped establish a narrative device that was to become extremely important in having spy fiction accepted by its burgeoning audience. This device was 'faction'; an authorial insistence that the spy novel dealt, in thinly disguised fashion, with real events, real characters, real conspiracies Nicholas Hiley is Head of Information at the British Universities Film and Video Council mostrar menos
Obras de William Le Queux
The Secret Formula 14 cópias
Secrets of the Foreign Office: Describing the Doings of Duckworth Drew of the Secret Service (1903) 8 cópias
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
The Terror of the Air 8 cópias
The Valley Of The Shadow 6 cópias
The Bomb-Makers Being some Curious Records concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an enemy al (2010) 5 cópias
Twice Tried 5 cópias
The King's Incognito 5 cópias
Lying Lips 4 cópias
The Crooked Way 4 cópias
The Spider's Eye 4 cópias
White Glove 4 cópias
Delphi Collected Works of William Le Queux (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 22) (2020) 4 cópias
The Idol Of The Town 4 cópias
The Crimes Club, etc 4 cópias
The Broadcast Mystery 4 cópias
Blackmailed 4 cópias
The Red Room 3 cópias
Who giveth this woman? 3 cópias
Three Knots 3 cópias
Behind the German Lines 3 cópias
The gamblers 3 cópias
No. 7, Saville Square 3 cópias
The yellow ribbon 3 cópias
The Mystery Of A Motor Car 3 cópias
Hidden hands 3 cópias
Love Intrigues Of The Kaiser's Sons 3 cópias
Tragico silenzio 3 cópias
The dangerous game 2 cópias
Poison shadows 2 cópias
Hushed Up At German Headquarters 2 cópias
The little blue goddess 2 cópias
Famous Crimes of Recent Times 2 cópias
Beryl of the biplane 2 cópias
The breath of suspicion 2 cópias
The Brass Butterfly 2 cópias
The fatal Face 2 cópias
Sins of the city 2 cópias
The woman in the way 2 cópias
The scandal-monger 2 cópias
In white raiment 2 cópias
Mysteries 2 cópias
Fatal fingers 2 cópias
The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia (2012) 2 cópias
Cinders of Harley Street 2 cópias
The Letter "E". 2 cópias
Sons Of Satan 2 cópias
The Secret Life of The Ex-Tsaritza 2 cópias
The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid 2 cópias
The Money-Spider 2 cópias
The death-doctor 2 cópias
The Red Ring 2 cópias
The Open Verdict 2 cópias
The scarlet sign 2 cópias
The black owl 2 cópias
The blue bungalow; a mystery 2 cópias
The bronze face 2 cópias
The House of the Wicked 2 cópias
The Great Plot 2 cópias
Bleke The Butler 2 cópias
Fine Feathers 2 cópias
The crime code 2 cópias
Donovan Of Whitehall 2 cópias
No Greater Love 2 cópias
The Secret Of The Square 2 cópias
Society intrigues I have known 2 cópias
Stolen Sweets 2 cópias
Secrets Of Monte Carlo 2 cópias
The Young Archduchess 2 cópias
The Devil's carnival 1 exemplar(es)
WILLIAM LE QUEUX: 100 Mystery & Espionage Thrillers (Illustrated Edition): The Price of Power, The Seven Secrets,… (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
The Zeppelin destroyer 1 exemplar(es)
The Crimes Club 1 exemplar(es)
Bela Kiss 1 exemplar(es)
The lure of love 1 exemplar(es)
The Man from downing Street 1 exemplar(es)
WILLIAM LE QUEUX Ultimate Collection: 100 Spy Thrillers, Detective Mysteries, Adventure Classics, Historical Novels,… (2017) 1 exemplar(es)
The luck of the Secret Service: Being the startling adventures of Claud Heathwaite, C.B., of His Britannic Majesty's… 1 exemplar(es)
The Hotel X 1 exemplar(es)
The bond of black 1 exemplar(es)
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplar(es)
The forbidden word 1 exemplar(es)
The Valrose mystery 1 exemplar(es)
The Secret Shame Of The Kaiser 1 exemplar(es)
The factotum : and other stories 1 exemplar(es)
The amazing count 1 exemplar(es)
The chameleon 1 exemplar(es)
The riddle of the ring 1 exemplar(es)
The office secret 1 exemplar(es)
Double nought 1 exemplar(es)
The lawless hand 1 exemplar(es)
The sting 1 exemplar(es)
The peril of Helen Marklove : and other stories 1 exemplar(es)
Concerning this woman 1 exemplar(es)
The mystery of mademoiselle 1 exemplar(es)
The marked man 1 exemplar(es)
A woman's debt 1 exemplar(es)
The War of the Nations 1 exemplar(es)
Where the desert ends 1 exemplar(es)
Landru : his secret love affairs 1 exemplar(es)
The fifth finger 1 exemplar(es)
The heart of a princess 1 exemplar(es)
In secret 1 exemplar(es)
The rainbow mystery: chronicles of a colour-criminologist 1 exemplar(es)
The Double Shadow. A mystery 1 exemplar(es)
The Royal Magazine : April 1921 (Contains The Copper Clock by William Le Queux & Mirth by Taffrail 1 exemplar(es)
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplar(es)
The House Of Evil 1 exemplar(es)
Interlaken : The Alpine Wonderland - A Novelist's Jottings 1 exemplar(es)
The Purple Death 1 exemplar(es)
Il 28 settembre 1 exemplar(es)
The Mysterious Treasure of Mme Humbert [story] 1 exemplar(es)
The Power Of The Borgias 1 exemplar(es)
German spies in England: A Startling Exposure of the Methods of Spies, Astonishing Facts, Outspoken Revelations 1 exemplar(es)
The catspaw 1 exemplar(es)
The mask 1 exemplar(es)
Bolo, the super-spy 1 exemplar(es)
The sister disciple 1 exemplar(es)
Two in a tangle 1 exemplar(es)
The man about town 1 exemplar(es)
Annette of the Argonne 1 exemplar(es)
The maker of secrets 1 exemplar(es)
The room of secrets 1 exemplar(es)
The mystery of nine 1 exemplar(es)
Without trace 1 exemplar(es)
The unknown to-morrow 1 exemplar(es)
Fatal thirteen 1 exemplar(es)
The looker-on 1 exemplar(es)
Whosoever loveth 1 exemplar(es)
The woman at Kensington 1 exemplar(es)
The three glass eyes 1 exemplar(es)
The mistery of Mademoiselle 1 exemplar(es)
The unnamed 1 exemplar(es)
The court of honour 1 exemplar(es)
Scribes and Pharisees 1 exemplar(es)
A madonna of the music halls 1 exemplar(es)
The Bronze Face 1 exemplar(es)
The Blue Bungalow 1 exemplar(es)
Schoolboys' adventure book 1 exemplar(es)
THE HOUSE OF EVIL 1 exemplar(es)
The secret life of the ex-Tsaritza; amazing disclosures by her maid-of-honour and confidante: the Baroness Zeneide… 1 exemplar(es)
The power of the Borgias : the story of the great film 1 exemplar(es)
The tattoo mystery 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Greatest Detective Stories: 1837-1914 (2019) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Le Queux, William Tufnell
- Data de nascimento
- 1864-07-02
- Data de falecimento
- 1927-10-13
- Local de enterro
- Knokke, Belgium
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Knokke, Belgium
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Ocupação
- journalist
author
diplomat
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The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love de William Le Queux
Turn of (last) century thriller. Some stilted language but overall a good read.
It begins in Scotland at the home of Sir Heyburn, a retired minister who is blind but has remarkable skills and knowledge. From here develops a mystery where valuables disappear from locked safes; written and whispered warnings come out of nowhere and a murder is committed behind locked doors.
Written more than 100 years ago, this mystery AND romance is a bit tedious. It follows then current styles in writing and setting.
Written more than 100 years ago, this mystery AND romance is a bit tedious. It follows then current styles in writing and setting.
This book came out in 1916, and takes place around then, as well, detailing the development of a weapon that will ignite the gas-bags in Zeppelins-- to my disappointment, the "Zeppelin Destroyer" means a destroyer of Zeppelins, not a Zeppelin that destroys. The protagonists, just like le Queux's later Terror of the Air, are a British aeronaut and his plucky flying fiancée.
It's not as science fictional as many of its contemporary proto-sf stories, nor even as science fictional as le Queux's other works: it's a pretty conventional spy/war story, with some military policy critique in the style of The Battle of Dorking or The Riddle of the Sands, with characters explaining to each other that they have nothing personally against the defence departments, and they're sure they're trying their hardest, but couldn't they institute better airraid warnings? There's also some pretty good scenes of mass destruction when the Zeppelins are attacked.
I was amused that the narrator admires his fiancée for not acquiring any hardness of feature despite her outdoor exploits, and doesn't seem to recognize the dissonance a couple hundred pages later when he complains that too many women wear makeup these days.… (mais)
It's not as science fictional as many of its contemporary proto-sf stories, nor even as science fictional as le Queux's other works: it's a pretty conventional spy/war story, with some military policy critique in the style of The Battle of Dorking or The Riddle of the Sands, with characters explaining to each other that they have nothing personally against the defence departments, and they're sure they're trying their hardest, but couldn't they institute better airraid warnings? There's also some pretty good scenes of mass destruction when the Zeppelins are attacked.
I was amused that the narrator admires his fiancée for not acquiring any hardness of feature despite her outdoor exploits, and doesn't seem to recognize the dissonance a couple hundred pages later when he complains that too many women wear makeup these days.… (mais)
William le Queux got his start in the 1890s and 1900s writing anti-German invasion fiction. The Terror of the Air reads like an attempt to port the conventions of the George Griffith narrative over into the post-Great War setting, though here the secret cabal of aerial pirates are the bad guys, a group of Germans bitter about losing the war. Their plan is a bit incoherent, though: first they raid air-ships, then they make terrorist threats and disintegrate Charing Cross (a lot like in The Three Days' Terror) then they release a plague, then they attack London's food supply, then they release poison gas. The pirates at one point seem to be like those of many 1890s revolutionary sf stories, with ideological motivations, given their threat:
WAR!
THE COUNCIL OF TEN
declare war against the social order.
CAPITALISM is abolished!
Everyone must live in absolute equality.
The social revolution is proclaimed anew.
In three nights London, the centre of Capital-
ism, will be punished for its crimes. Heed
this warning!
AND ACT!
But this seems to just be a ruse, as the ideology is never followed up on.
The ostensible protagonist is Major Alan Maclean, an officer in the British Imperial Air Force, but le Queux gives all the good ideas to his girlfriend Violet Eustace, and she's a better flier to boot. She saves his life more than once, yet the narrative always treats her as a sidekick. It's weird. Also she's about the only interesting thing in this tedious book. It ends with some points unresolved; I don't know if it was to set up a sequel or just sloppy writing.… (mais)
WAR!
THE COUNCIL OF TEN
declare war against the social order.
CAPITALISM is abolished!
Everyone must live in absolute equality.
The social revolution is proclaimed anew.
In three nights London, the centre of Capital-
ism, will be punished for its crimes. Heed
this warning!
AND ACT!
But this seems to just be a ruse, as the ideology is never followed up on.
The ostensible protagonist is Major Alan Maclean, an officer in the British Imperial Air Force, but le Queux gives all the good ideas to his girlfriend Violet Eustace, and she's a better flier to boot. She saves his life more than once, yet the narrative always treats her as a sidekick. It's weird. Also she's about the only interesting thing in this tedious book. It ends with some points unresolved; I don't know if it was to set up a sequel or just sloppy writing.… (mais)
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