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The dangerous game — William Le Queux

The dangerous game

William Le Queux

  • Adventure
  • Book language: English
  • 182 pages

The Dangerous Game is an adventure novel by William Le Queux. It opens with a pretty spy on a yacht, puzzled by distress flares at night, while an Englishman and a young woman talk at a hotel in Corfu. It offers intrigue and suspense for listeners who enjoy classic adventure.

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Frontispiece

The pretty spy, watching from the bridge of the yacht, was greatly perplexed by the flares of distress hurtling through the night.

THE

DANGEROUS

GAME

By WILLIAM LE QUEUX

AUTHOR OF “THE CRYSTAL CLAW,” “MADEMOISELLE

OF MONTE CARLO,” ETC.

Frontispiece by

HENRY C. MURPHY, Jr.

NEW YORK

THE MACAULAY COMPANY

[COPYRIGHT]

PǼœƯƗǪƒŧŠ Ɨƿ EƿƄƯĵƿŠ UƿŠŧǡ ǵƒŧ TƗǵƯŧ “HƗŠŠŧƿ HĵƿŠǪ.”

CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1926
BΏ THE MACAULAY COMPANY
CONTENTS
I. THE WATCHER
II. LOVE AND CURIOSITY
III. THE ELUSIVE JOAN
IV. THE GREAT SECRET
V. CONCERNS SOME FACTS
VI. THE HOUSE OF SUSPICION
VII. THE SPECIAL BRANCH
VIII. A DELICATE ERRAND
IX. ON DANGEROUS GROUND
X. THE GIRL OF THE SNOWS
XI. SOWING THE WIND
XII. IN CONFIDENCE
XIII. IN THE PAPERS
XIV. THE WEEK-END
XV. THE SECRET OUT
XVI. REVEALS THE BARRIER
XVII. BESIDE THE SEA
XVIII. STOLEN SWEETS
XIX. ’MID SNOW AND SUNSHINE
XX. THE REFUGE HUT
XXI. HOW THE SCALES FELL
XXII. THE VALLEY OF LIES
XXIII. DEPTHS OF DECEIT
XXIV. A DANCE AT CLARIDGE’S
XXV. DOUBLE CUNNING
XXVI. REMORSE
XXVII. THE TRAP
XXVIII. CONCLUSION

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Contents

  1. THE DANGEROUS GAME
  2. [COPYRIGHT]
  3. CONTENTS
  4. THE DANGEROUS GAME
  5. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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