William Le Queux (1864–1927)
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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 toon meer 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 toon minder
Werken van William Le Queux
The Secret Formula 14 exemplaren
Secrets of the Foreign Office: Describing the Doings of Duckworth Drew of the Secret Service (1903) 8 exemplaren
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
The Terror of the Air 8 exemplaren
A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist 6 exemplaren
The Valley Of The Shadow 6 exemplaren
The Bomb-Makers Being some Curious Records concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an enemy al (2010) 5 exemplaren
Twice Tried 5 exemplaren
The King's Incognito 5 exemplaren
Lying Lips 4 exemplaren
The Spider's Eye 4 exemplaren
White Glove 4 exemplaren
Delphi Collected Works of William Le Queux (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 22) (2020) 4 exemplaren
The Idol Of The Town 4 exemplaren
The Crooked Way 4 exemplaren
The Crimes Club, etc 4 exemplaren
The Broadcast Mystery 4 exemplaren
Blackmailed 4 exemplaren
Who giveth this woman? 3 exemplaren
Three Knots 3 exemplaren
Behind the German Lines 3 exemplaren
The gamblers 3 exemplaren
The yellow ribbon 3 exemplaren
No. 7, Saville Square 3 exemplaren
The Mystery Of A Motor Car 3 exemplaren
Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks 3 exemplaren
The Red Room 3 exemplaren
The dangerous game 3 exemplaren
Hidden hands 3 exemplaren
Love Intrigues Of The Kaiser's Sons 3 exemplaren
Tragico silenzio 3 exemplaren
The little blue goddess 2 exemplaren
Hushed Up At German Headquarters 2 exemplaren
The breath of suspicion 2 exemplaren
Poison shadows 2 exemplaren
Famous Crimes of Recent Times 2 exemplaren
Beryl of the biplane 2 exemplaren
The Brass Butterfly 2 exemplaren
The fatal Face 2 exemplaren
Sins of the city 2 exemplaren
The scandal-monger 2 exemplaren
The woman in the way 2 exemplaren
In white raiment 2 exemplaren
Mysteries 2 exemplaren
Fatal fingers 2 exemplaren
The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia (2012) 2 exemplaren
Cinders of Harley Street 2 exemplaren
The Letter "E". 2 exemplaren
The scarlet sign 2 exemplaren
The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid 2 exemplaren
The Money-Spider 2 exemplaren
The death-doctor 2 exemplaren
The Red Ring 2 exemplaren
The Open Verdict 2 exemplaren
Sons Of Satan 2 exemplaren
The House of the Wicked 2 exemplaren
The lady-in-waiting : a royal romance 2 exemplaren
Society intrigues I have known 2 exemplaren
The black owl 2 exemplaren
The blue bungalow; a mystery 2 exemplaren
The bronze face 2 exemplaren
The Secret Life of The Ex-Tsaritza 2 exemplaren
The Great Plot 2 exemplaren
Mysteries of a Great City, Being the Reminiscences of Monsieur Raoul Becq, Ex-Sous-Chef of the Sûreté Générale of… 2 exemplaren
Stolen Sweets 2 exemplaren
Fine Feathers 2 exemplaren
The crime code 2 exemplaren
The Near East: The Present Situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia 2 exemplaren
Donovan Of Whitehall 2 exemplaren
No Greater Love 2 exemplaren
Bleke The Butler 2 exemplaren
The Young Archduchess 2 exemplaren
Secrets Of Monte Carlo 2 exemplaren
The Secret Of The Square 2 exemplaren
The bond of black 1 exemplaar
The Devil's carnival 1 exemplaar
The Zeppelin destroyer 1 exemplaar
WILLIAM LE QUEUX: 100 Mystery & Espionage Thrillers (Illustrated Edition): The Price of Power, The Seven Secrets,… (2017) 1 exemplaar
The Crimes Club 1 exemplaar
Bela Kiss 1 exemplaar
The Man from downing Street 1 exemplaar
The Hotel X 1 exemplaar
WILLIAM LE QUEUX Ultimate Collection: 100 Spy Thrillers, Detective Mysteries, Adventure Classics, Historical Novels,… (2017) 1 exemplaar
The lure of love 1 exemplaar
The forbidden word 1 exemplaar
The Valrose mystery 1 exemplaar
The Power Of The Borgias 1 exemplaar
The Secret Shame Of The Kaiser 1 exemplaar
The factotum : and other stories 1 exemplaar
The amazing count 1 exemplaar
The chameleon 1 exemplaar
The riddle of the ring 1 exemplaar
The office secret 1 exemplaar
Double nought 1 exemplaar
The lawless hand 1 exemplaar
The sting 1 exemplaar
The peril of Helen Marklove : and other stories 1 exemplaar
Concerning this woman 1 exemplaar
The mystery of mademoiselle 1 exemplaar
The marked man 1 exemplaar
A woman's debt 1 exemplaar
Where the desert ends 1 exemplaar
Landru : his secret love affairs 1 exemplaar
The fifth finger 1 exemplaar
The heart of a princess 1 exemplaar
In secret 1 exemplaar
The Double Shadow. A mystery 1 exemplaar
The Royal Magazine : April 1921 (Contains The Copper Clock by William Le Queux & Mirth by Taffrail 1 exemplaar
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplaar
The House Of Evil 1 exemplaar
The Purple Death 1 exemplaar
Il 28 settembre 1 exemplaar
The Mysterious Treasure of Mme Humbert [story] 1 exemplaar
The War of the Nations 1 exemplaar
The mistery of Mademoiselle 1 exemplaar
The catspaw 1 exemplaar
The mask 1 exemplaar
Bolo, the super-spy 1 exemplaar
The sister disciple 1 exemplaar
Two in a tangle 1 exemplaar
The man about town 1 exemplaar
Annette of the Argonne 1 exemplaar
The maker of secrets 1 exemplaar
The room of secrets 1 exemplaar
The mystery of nine 1 exemplaar
Without trace 1 exemplaar
The unknown to-morrow 1 exemplaar
Fatal thirteen 1 exemplaar
The looker-on 1 exemplaar
Whosoever loveth 1 exemplaar
The woman at Kensington 1 exemplaar
The three glass eyes 1 exemplaar
WILLIAM LE QUEUX: 15 Dystopian Novels & Espionage Thrillers (Illustrated Edition): The Price of Power, The Great War in… (2017) 1 exemplaar
The unnamed 1 exemplaar
The court of honour 1 exemplaar
Scribes and Pharisees 1 exemplaar
A madonna of the music halls 1 exemplaar
The Great War in England 1897 1 exemplaar
The Bronze Face 1 exemplaar
The Blue Bungalow 1 exemplaar
Schoolboys' adventure book 1 exemplaar
THE HOUSE OF EVIL 1 exemplaar
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplaar
The tattoo mystery 1 exemplaar
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- Le Queux, William Tufnell
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- 1864-07-02
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1927-10-13
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- Knokke, Belgium
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- London, England, UK
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The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love door 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.… (meer)
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.… (meer)
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.… (meer)
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.… (meer)
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