William Le Queux (1864–1927)
Auteur de The Seven Secrets
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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 afficher moins
Œuvres de William Le Queux
The Secret Formula 14 exemplaires
Secrets of the Foreign Office: Describing the Doings of Duckworth Drew of the Secret Service (1903) 8 exemplaires
British Mystery Multipacks Vol. 6 - British Spy Mysteries: The 39 Steps, The Riddle of the Sands, Bulldog Drummond,… (2015) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
The Terror of the Air 8 exemplaires
The Valley Of The Shadow 6 exemplaires
A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist 6 exemplaires
The Bomb-Makers Being some Curious Records concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an enemy al (2010) 5 exemplaires
Twice Tried 5 exemplaires
The King's Incognito 5 exemplaires
Lying Lips 4 exemplaires
The Crooked Way 4 exemplaires
The Spider's Eye 4 exemplaires
White Glove 4 exemplaires
Delphi Collected Works of William Le Queux (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Ten Book 22) (2020) 4 exemplaires
The Idol Of The Town 4 exemplaires
The Crimes Club, etc 4 exemplaires
The Broadcast Mystery 4 exemplaires
Blackmailed 4 exemplaires
The Red Room 3 exemplaires
Who giveth this woman? 3 exemplaires
Three Knots 3 exemplaires
Behind the German Lines 3 exemplaires
The gamblers 3 exemplaires
No. 7, Saville Square 3 exemplaires
The yellow ribbon 3 exemplaires
Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks 3 exemplaires
The Mystery Of A Motor Car 3 exemplaires
The dangerous game 3 exemplaires
Hidden hands 3 exemplaires
Love Intrigues Of The Kaiser's Sons 3 exemplaires
Tragico silenzio 3 exemplaires
Poison shadows 2 exemplaires
Hushed Up At German Headquarters 2 exemplaires
The little blue goddess 2 exemplaires
Famous Crimes of Recent Times 2 exemplaires
Beryl of the biplane 2 exemplaires
The breath of suspicion 2 exemplaires
The Brass Butterfly 2 exemplaires
The fatal Face 2 exemplaires
Sins of the city 2 exemplaires
The woman in the way 2 exemplaires
The scandal-monger 2 exemplaires
In white raiment 2 exemplaires
Mysteries 2 exemplaires
Fatal fingers 2 exemplaires
The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia (2012) 2 exemplaires
Cinders of Harley Street 2 exemplaires
The Letter "E". 2 exemplaires
Sons Of Satan 2 exemplaires
The Secret Life of The Ex-Tsaritza 2 exemplaires
The Indiscretions of a Lady's Maid 2 exemplaires
The Money-Spider 2 exemplaires
The death-doctor 2 exemplaires
The Red Ring 2 exemplaires
The Open Verdict 2 exemplaires
The scarlet sign 2 exemplaires
Mysteries of a Great City, Being the Reminiscences of Monsieur Raoul Becq, Ex-Sous-Chef of the Sûreté Générale of… 2 exemplaires
The lady-in-waiting : a royal romance 2 exemplaires
The black owl 2 exemplaires
The blue bungalow; a mystery 2 exemplaires
The bronze face 2 exemplaires
The House of the Wicked 2 exemplaires
The Great Plot 2 exemplaires
Bleke The Butler 2 exemplaires
Fine Feathers 2 exemplaires
The crime code 2 exemplaires
The Near East: The Present Situation in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey and Macedonia 2 exemplaires
Donovan Of Whitehall 2 exemplaires
No Greater Love 2 exemplaires
The Secret Of The Square 2 exemplaires
Society intrigues I have known 2 exemplaires
Stolen Sweets 2 exemplaires
Secrets Of Monte Carlo 2 exemplaires
The Young Archduchess 2 exemplaires
The Devil's carnival 1 exemplaire
WILLIAM LE QUEUX: 100 Mystery & Espionage Thrillers (Illustrated Edition): The Price of Power, The Seven Secrets,… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Zeppelin destroyer 1 exemplaire
The Crimes Club 1 exemplaire
Bela Kiss 1 exemplaire
The lure of love 1 exemplaire
The Man from downing Street 1 exemplaire
WILLIAM LE QUEUX Ultimate Collection: 100 Spy Thrillers, Detective Mysteries, Adventure Classics, Historical Novels,… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The luck of the Secret Service: Being the startling adventures of Claud Heathwaite, C.B., of His Britannic Majesty's… 1 exemplaire
The Hotel X 1 exemplaire
The bond of black 1 exemplaire
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplaire
The forbidden word 1 exemplaire
The Valrose mystery 1 exemplaire
The Secret Shame Of The Kaiser 1 exemplaire
The factotum : and other stories 1 exemplaire
The amazing count 1 exemplaire
The chameleon 1 exemplaire
The riddle of the ring 1 exemplaire
The office secret 1 exemplaire
Double nought 1 exemplaire
The lawless hand 1 exemplaire
The sting 1 exemplaire
The peril of Helen Marklove : and other stories 1 exemplaire
Concerning this woman 1 exemplaire
The mystery of mademoiselle 1 exemplaire
The marked man 1 exemplaire
A woman's debt 1 exemplaire
The War of the Nations 1 exemplaire
Where the desert ends 1 exemplaire
Landru : his secret love affairs 1 exemplaire
The fifth finger 1 exemplaire
The heart of a princess 1 exemplaire
In secret 1 exemplaire
The Double Shadow. A mystery 1 exemplaire
The Royal Magazine : April 1921 (Contains The Copper Clock by William Le Queux & Mirth by Taffrail 1 exemplaire
Treasure of Israel 1 exemplaire
The House Of Evil 1 exemplaire
The Purple Death 1 exemplaire
Il 28 settembre 1 exemplaire
The Mysterious Treasure of Mme Humbert [story] 1 exemplaire
The Power Of The Borgias 1 exemplaire
German spies in England: A Startling Exposure of the Methods of Spies, Astonishing Facts, Outspoken Revelations 1 exemplaire
The catspaw 1 exemplaire
The mask 1 exemplaire
Bolo, the super-spy 1 exemplaire
The sister disciple 1 exemplaire
Two in a tangle 1 exemplaire
The man about town 1 exemplaire
Annette of the Argonne 1 exemplaire
The maker of secrets 1 exemplaire
The room of secrets 1 exemplaire
The mystery of nine 1 exemplaire
Without trace 1 exemplaire
The unknown to-morrow 1 exemplaire
Fatal thirteen 1 exemplaire
The looker-on 1 exemplaire
Whosoever loveth 1 exemplaire
The woman at Kensington 1 exemplaire
The three glass eyes 1 exemplaire
The mistery of Mademoiselle 1 exemplaire
The unnamed 1 exemplaire
The court of honour 1 exemplaire
Scribes and Pharisees 1 exemplaire
A madonna of the music halls 1 exemplaire
The Bronze Face 1 exemplaire
The Blue Bungalow 1 exemplaire
Schoolboys' adventure book 1 exemplaire
THE HOUSE OF EVIL 1 exemplaire
The secret life of the ex-Tsaritza; amazing disclosures by her maid-of-honour and confidante: the Baroness Zeneide… 1 exemplaire
The tattoo mystery 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Le Queux, William Tufnell
- Date de naissance
- 1864-07-02
- Date de décès
- 1927-10-13
- Lieu de sépulture
- Knokke, Belgium
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Knokke, Belgium
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Professions
- journalist
author
diplomat
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Critiques
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love par 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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 235
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,032
- Popularité
- #24,952
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 88
- ISBN
- 414
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
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