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Title: The Seven Secrets

Author: William Le Queux

Release Date: December 17, 2008 [EBook #27549]

Language: English

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The Seven Secrets

BY

WILLIAM LE QUEUX

_Author of "The Gamblers," "The Under-Secretary," "Whoso findeth
a Wife," "Of Royal Blood," etc._

_Second Edition_

London:
HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW
1903

A. C. FOWLER,
PRINTER,
MOORFIELDS, LONDON.

WILLIAM LE QUEUX'S NOVELS.

"As a recounter of stories of mingled mystery and adventure, Mr.
William Le Queux is certainly among the best living writers."--_The
Athenaeum._

"It is interesting that Queen Alexandra is a great reader of novels of
mystery and adventure, and that she is one of Mr. Le Queux's most
ardent admirers. Long ago, when his 'Zoraida' was issued, she gave an
order to a well-known Piccadilly bookseller for all Mr. Le Queux's
books, past and future, and an early copy of each of that writer's
books reaches her."--_The Queen._

"The name of William Le Queux is well known to novel-readers as that
of one who can weave the most wonderful mysteries and elaborate the
most thrilling plots that are to be met with in the fiction of to-day.
His books are read with the avidity of intense curiosity, for the
string of events described are of the kind that demand attention until
the end is reached and everything made clear."--_Literary World._

"Mr. William Le Queux's name is favourably known to all readers of
sensational fiction. He elaborates the most wonderful plots, and holds
his reader breathless to the end, for it is only quite at the end that
light is allowed to break through the entanglement of circumstance, or
the perplexities brought about by the shock of temperament."--_Daily
News._

"Mr. William Le Queux's novels are one of my chief foibles. I can
always read his stories gre