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The White Lie (Paperback)
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The White Lie (Paperback)
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Loot Price R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
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The White Lie (1915) 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 White Lie is a story of
espionage, mystery, and murder. 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 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 White Lie, a retired naval
officer named Dick Harbonne is stabbed to death on a rural road in
the vicinity of Norwich. Discovered in a ditch that morning,
Harbonne's murder seems more than an attempted robbery gone awry.
While inspecting an engineering project along the coast of Norfolk,
Lieutenant Barclay-a former friend of Harbonne's-and Francis
Goring-a local politician-discuss the man's tragic, shocking death.
Recalling his recent run-ins with Harbonne, Barclay notes that
since retiring from naval service, he had taken up a rather
libertine lifestyle, traveling constantly from England to the
continent while turning up at strange hours looking disheveled and
acting like a complete stranger. While discussing the progress of
the telegraph line being laid across the North Sea to Germany,
Lieutenant Barclay has a strange premonition, a voice in his head
imploring him to not only look into his friend's mysterious death,
but to be on the look out for spies of Kaiser Wilhelm. Fearful,
cautious, yet famously calm, Barclay suspects that the question of
invasion seems less of a matter of if now than when. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of William Le Queux's The White Lie is a classic
espionage thriller reimagined for modern readers.
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