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The Seven Secrets (Hardcover)
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The Seven Secrets (Hardcover)
Series: Mint Editions
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Loot Price R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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The Seven Secrets (1903) is a mystery novel by Anglo-French writer
William Le Queux. Published at the height of Le Queux's career as a
leading author of popular thrillers, The Seven Secrets is a story
of mystery, murder, and amateur sleuthing. Using his own research
and experience as a journalist and adventurer, Le Queux crafts an
accessible, entertaining tale for readers in search of a literary
escape. Known for his works of fiction and nonfiction on the
possibility of Germany invading Britain-a paranoia common in the
early twentieth century-William Le Queux also wrote dozens of
thrillers and adventure novels for a dedicated public audience.
Although critical acclaim eluded him, popular success made him one
of England's bestselling writers. In The Seven Secrets, a young
English doctor named Ralph Boyd is left in charge of his practice
due to the sudden unavailability of its chief surgeon. Hoping for
an uneventful evening, he receives an emergency call to a home in
Kew Gardens. Quickly recognizing the address as the mansion where
his fiancee Ethelwynn Mivart lives with her sister and her husband,
Boyd fears the worst. When he arrives, he discovers Mr. Courtenay
stabbed to death in his own bed, all the doors and windows closed
and locked, every servant gone home, and his fiancee and her sister
missing. The next morning, as news of the scandalous occurrence
begins to spread, Doctor Boyd contacts his friend Ambler Jevons, a
merchant by day and skilled detective by night whose services have
been used by everyone from local police to the investigators of
Scotland Yard. Together, the two amateur sleuths uncover a trail of
secrets that will plunge their lives-and the lives of their loved
ones-into unimaginable danger. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Le
Queux's The Seven Secrets is a classic mystery novel reimagined for
modern readers.
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