William Le Queux Books in Order

Young politician Reggie Paston supports a revolutionary machine gun developed at his father’s factory. As officials consider buying the weapon, foreign interests pursue its plans, drawing his political ambitions and complicated romantic life into a struggle over military secrets.

Presented through Count Ernst von Heltzendorff's account, these stories depict scandals and intrigue around Germany's Kaiser and Crown Prince. Court relationships become instruments of manipulation, with private grievances and political power feeding dangerous schemes behind royal appearances.

Gerry Sant's espionage adventures take him through a Europe at war, where German agents pursue concealed operations. These linked accounts follow his use of disguise, observation, and resourcefulness to uncover plots and frustrate enemy plans.

Rasputin's secretary, Féodor Rajevski, narrates his employer's rise within the Russian imperial court. The account portrays religious influence as a cover for manipulation, drawing the Empress and other powerful figures into alleged plots and scandals.

Supposed confidante Baroness Zenaide Tzankoff recounts Alexandra's youth, marriage, and life at Russia's imperial court. Le Queux uses this purported memoir to portray private relationships and alleged German influence as forces behind the dynasty's troubles.

Politician Reginald Monkton struggles with his wife's death while his daughter Sheila begins a romance. The discovery of an unconscious stranger resembling him introduces a mystery that threatens to connect his private grief with political deception.

A woman’s consuming love for her daughter drives decisions that place every other attachment at risk. Her ambitions demand mounting sacrifices of marriage, friendship, reputation, and personal security in a story about the cost of parental devotion.

Rasputin arrives in Britain to establish a branch of his secret cult. This fictional extension of his career brings the intrigues associated with the Russian court into London, where religious pretensions conceal manipulation and wrongdoing.

Writer Walter Fetherston's feelings for Enid Orlebar are tangled with a past he keeps concealed. Dr. Weirmarsh's manipulation draws their relationships into a wider mystery, threatening to expose secrets with consequences beyond their romance.

Strange events at No. 7 Saville Square frighten its occupants and lead to murder. Mystery writer Dick Temple and former naval officer James Bravington become involved in an investigation where apparent hauntings and uncertain identities cloud the evidence.

Impoverished violinist Nello Corsini and his sister Anita struggle on London's streets until Papa Péron offers help. His interest in Nello's talent opens new possibilities, but his mysterious past hints at complications behind their change of fortune.

Marigold Ramsay fears that her aunt's employer, Bernard Boyne, is hiding a second life. With Gerald Durrant's help, she investigates disturbing events and a locked attic, testing the respectability of a seemingly ordinary London household.

Major Alan Maclean and skilled pilot Violet Eustace face aerial pirates threatening postwar London. Attacks escalate beyond airships into destructive weapons and public terror, forcing them to confront a cabal whose plans endanger the city.

The Earl of Saxham sends his son Guy to Madrid to separate him from a woman he wants to marry. The diplomatic posting instead exposes Guy to anarchist intrigue and a vengeful woman's pursuit.

Allan Kennedy acquires an old manuscript in Florence that appears to contain a secret connected with the Borgias. Warnings surround his purchase, and deciphering the document draws him into danger while raising questions about whom he can trust.

Hugh Henfrey travels to Monte Carlo seeking answers about his father's mysterious death. A woman whose extraordinary gambling luck attracts attention may hold the information he needs, drawing him toward secrets beneath the casino's glamorous surface.

Two men and two women become modern Robin Hoods, targeting profiteers who enriched themselves illegally during the First World War. Through thefts and elaborate schemes, they turn stolen money and valuable objects into support for an orphanage.

Diplomat Claud Heathwaite's travels become secret intelligence work as Europe moves toward war. After his father's sudden death disrupts his life, missions through Russia demand information that could shape Britain's foreign policy and military preparations.

Constable Brown investigates a broken window at an empty London house and discovers a dead man. What first resembles suicide raises questions about earlier crimes, drawing the neglected property and its elusive history into a police inquiry.

Former airman Dick Manton joins Yvette Pasquet in a daring attempt to recover stolen jewels connected with Rasputin. Their unusual aircraft helps carry them into encounters with espionage and smuggling in a Europe still unsettled by war.

Former soldier George Hargreave becomes chauffeur to the mysterious Rudolph Rayne and is drawn into a criminal world. His attraction to Rayne's daughter Lola complicates his growing doubts about his employer's intentions and the people surrounding them.

Engineer Hugh Garfield is summoned to a wealthy man's home and drawn into a young woman's sudden death. After illness and lost memories leave him in a foreign hospital, he must reconstruct events clouded by bribery and deception.

A young solicitor falls in love with a widow's daughter in a quiet Devon seaside town. When she is strangled inside a locked bedroom during a storm, an apparently impossible murder destroys their plans and exposes deeper mysteries.

Radio engineer Geoffrey Falconer hears a strange signal recurring each evening and tries to trace its source. His investigation draws him toward jewel thefts and suspicious members of the social circle surrounding a young woman he knows.

In postwar London, unexplained deaths and suicides unsettle high society while Cora Hartsilver faces tragedy within her own marriage. Her personal connections draw her into secrets that link grief, troubled relationships, and the darker side of her social world.

A country rector is alarmed when a man he believed dead appears at church. After his son encounters a dying girl and disappears, the rector must confront mysteries tied to his own past and his family's safety.

Secretary Richard Croxton hopes to marry his employer's niece, Rosabelle, but a robbery of the millionaire's safe makes him a suspect. Her belief in his innocence faces pressure as their future depends on untangling the crime.

After a fatal street struggle, Foreign Office official Lionel Hipwell flees and adopts a false identity. Hiding in London draws him into a gang's jewel thefts, leaving his career and freedom threatened by secrets he struggles to understand.

A secret club of investigators shares expertise on baffling crimes across Europe. Physicians, lawyers and other specialists examine motives and clues, including the disappearance of a young Scotsman in the Alps, while guarding investigations whose revelations could cause scandal.

Radio engineer Leonard Lydon's holiday is shattered by a friend's violent encounter with a woman linked to crime. His subsequent attachment to Gloria Stormont draws him deeper into a wealthy family's financial troubles, secrets, and uncertain loyalties.

A sinister doctor uses a family's buried secrets to demand money from an ailing baronet. As the Evendens confront scandal, inheritance disputes, and sudden death, past tragedy threatens the relationships they are struggling to protect.

British secret-service officer Captain Easterbee becomes involved in an international adventure centered on the crown of Ivan the Terrible. The historical treasure lies at the heart of a thriller combining espionage and intrigue across national borders.

Three criminals infiltrate society, uncover family secrets, and use them to blackmail their victims. Lady Inverlake's hidden past becomes part of their schemes, as the apparent respectability of those around her conceals a dangerous campaign of manipulation.