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William Le Queux (1864–1927)

Autor de The Seven Secrets

235+ Obras 1,030 Miembros 88 Reseñas 1 Preferidas

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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 mostrar más 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 Seven Secrets (1903) 46 copias
The Invasion of 1910 (2007) 32 copias
The House of Whispers (1909) 28 copias
The Four Faces A Mystery (1914) 27 copias
The Minister of Evil (1918) 24 copias
The Count's Chauffeur (1920) 16 copias
The Stretton Street Affair (2011) 16 copias
Rasputin the Rascal Monk (1917) 13 copias
The Golden Face (1922) 12 copias
The Mysterious Three (2012) 12 copias
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo (2006) 12 copias
An Eye for an Eye (2012) 12 copias
Behind the Throne (1914) 11 copias
The Place of Dragons (1919) 10 copias
If England Were Invaded (2014) 9 copias
As We Forgive Them (2012) 9 copias
The Voice from the Void (1923) 9 copias
The Doctor of Pimlico (1920) 9 copias
The Closed Book (2012) 9 copias
In White Raiment (2012) 9 copias
The Sign of Silence (1915) 9 copias
The Lost Million (2012) 8 copias
The Day of Temptation (1910) 8 copias
The Intriguers (2010) 8 copias
The Mysterious Mr. Miller (2012) 7 copias
The Secrets of Potsdam (1917) 7 copias
If Sinners Entice Thee (2012) 7 copias
Her Royal Highness (2012) 7 copias
The Temptress (2012) 7 copias
The Veiled Man (2012) 7 copias
The Broken Thread (2012) 7 copias
Whither Thou Goest (2012) 6 copias
The Crystal Claw (1924) 6 copias
The Pauper of Park Lane (2012) 6 copias
The Wiles of the Wicked (2012) 6 copias
Zoraida (1897) 6 copias
The Bond of Black (1899) 6 copias
The White Lie (2010) 6 copias
The Golden Three (1930) 6 copias
The Eye of Istar (2012) 6 copias
Twice Tried 5 copias
Devil's Dice (2012) 5 copias
The Lady in the Car (2012) 5 copias
This House to Let (2012) 5 copias
The Great Court Scandal (2009) 5 copias
Guilty Bonds (2009) 5 copias
The Sign of the Stranger (2012) 5 copias
The hand of Allah (1914) 4 copias
Lying Lips 4 copias
White Glove 4 copias
Behind the Bronze Door (2010) 4 copias
The Crooked Way 4 copias
Blackmailed 4 copias
The Great God Gold (2010) 4 copias
Whoso Findeth a Wife (2012) 3 copias
Of Royal Blood (2018) 3 copias
The Red Room 3 copias
Three Knots 3 copias
The gamblers 3 copias
The Under-Secretary (2013) 3 copias
The Crinkled Crown (1929) 3 copias
Stolen Souls (2012) 3 copias
Tracked by Wireless (2019) 3 copias
Whatsoever a Man Soweth (2012) 3 copias
Her Majesty's Minister (2012) 3 copias
Hidden hands 3 copias
A secret sin (1897) 2 copias
Poison shadows 2 copias
The Letter "E". 2 copias
The fatal Face 2 copias
Fatal fingers 2 copias
Mysteries 2 copias
Cipher six (1970) 2 copias
Fine Feathers 2 copias
Sons Of Satan 2 copias
The Way to Win (2012) 2 copias
The Red Ring 2 copias
German Atrocities (2016) 2 copias
The Great Plot 2 copias
The bronze face 2 copias
The black owl 2 copias
Stolen Sweets 2 copias
The crime code 2 copias
No Greater Love 2 copias
The Tickencote Treasure (2021) 2 copias
Bela Kiss 1 copia
The Hotel X 1 copia
The chameleon 1 copia
Double nought 1 copia
The sting 1 copia
In secret 1 copia
The catspaw 1 copia
Without trace 1 copia
The looker-on 1 copia
The mask 1 copia
The unnamed 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

El libro de cabecera del espía (1957) — Contribuidor — 353 copias
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Early Detective Stories (1970) — Contribuidor — 313 copias
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime (2009) — Contribuidor — 180 copias
The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes & Impossible Mysteries (2006) — Contribuidor — 144 copias
Unsolved! Classic True Murder Cases (1987) — Contribuidor — 40 copias
Spies and Secret Agents (1993) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Adventure [Vol. 1 No. 1, November 1910] (1910) — Contribuidor — 1 copia

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Nombre legal
Le Queux, William Tufnell
Fecha de nacimiento
1864-07-02
Fecha de fallecimiento
1927-10-13
Lugar de sepultura
Knokke, Belgium
Género
male
Nacionalidad
England
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
London, England, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento
Knokke, Belgium
Lugares de residencia
London, England, UK
Paris, France
Ocupaciones
journalist
author
diplomat

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Murder Mystery_poison en Name that Book (octubre 2017)

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Turn of (last) century thriller. Some stilted language but overall a good read.
 
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jimgosailing | 2 reseñas más. | Nov 18, 2021 |
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.
 
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Bettesbooks | 2 reseñas más. | Jul 28, 2020 |
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.
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Stevil2001 | otra reseña | May 23, 2016 |
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.
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Stevil2001 | otra reseña | May 6, 2016 |

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