NASH'S 2/- NOVELS
_VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED_ MYSTERY & DETECTIVE STORIES
+The Hollow Needle+ _By Maurice Leblanc_
A story of Arsene Lupin, the greatest, most ingenious and most daring criminal in modern fiction.
"A thrilling and fascinating story ... not less exciting or less mystifying than its predecessors."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
"Well worthy of its place in the famous set of adventures."--_Observer._
+The Black Spider+ _By Carlton Dawe_
"Described as a sensational story of a female 'Raffles' this tale ... in every way lives up to its description."--_Birmingham Daily Post._
"Full of thrills from beginning to end."--_Western Mail._
"An extremely powerful story ... well worked out, and the mixture of romance with a story of the 'Raffles' type is well calculated to please."--_T.P.'s Weekly._
+The Window at The White Cat+ _by Mary Roberts Rinehart_
_Author of "The Circular Staircase," etc._
"The plot is skilful and the incidents exciting. It is something more than a mere detective story: there is character in it, and a pleasant love story, and a quite refreshing sense of humour."--_The Outlook._
"We greatly enjoyed the brisk dialogue and the unexpected ending."--_Evening Times._
+The Wife He Never Saw+ _By Max Marcin_
"A decidedly clever bit of sensation, ... worked out with considerable resource. Altogether a fine thrill."--_Liverpool Courier._
"A vigorous and briskly moving yarn--the best thing of the kind we have encountered for some considerable time."--_Birmingham Daily Post._
+The Red Symbol+ _By John Ironside_
"Enthralling, entertaining and powerful ... clean and wholesome, it is one of the most powerful novels we have had for a long time ... a fine mystery story most excellently told and holding its reader in its grasp from start to finish."--_Dublin Daily Express._
"A love story full of thrilling incidents."--_Country Life._
"Vigour and swing characterise the book, which has no dull pages, and which keeps its alluring secret until near the end."--_Glasgow Herald._
+Raffles+ _By E. W. Hornung_
"Hats off to Raffles."--_Daily Telegraph._
+The House of Whispers+ _By William Le Queux_
"Mystery--tantalising and baffling."--_The Yorkshire Post._
"An excellent tale."--_The Daily Telegraph._
"Full of arresting situations and making a strong appeal at every stage to the instinct of curiosity."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._
"Mr. Le Queux will please thousands by this work."--_The Morning Leader._
+Treasure of Israel+ _by William Le Queux_
"Another of his wonderful mystery stories."--_Liverpool Daily Post._
"An admirably worked piece of sensationalism ... ought to please a host of readers."--_The Sunday Times._
"Mr. Le Queux keeps his readers fascinated to the end."--_The Yorkshire Post._
"The author is at his raciest; each chapter discloses some new phase of the mystery, each page supplies a new thrill of excitement."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._
+The House of the Whispering Pines+ _By Anna Katharine Green_
_Author of "The Leavenworth Case."_
"The author has written nothing so good since her famous 'Leavenworth Case.' The story grips one from the first scene.... The book is crammed with incident ... there is not a dull page from first to last."--_The Outlook._
"So ingenious, plausible, dramatic, and well-thought-out a plot is a relief after the far-fetched absurdities of many tales of the kind. The most austere reader ... will find himself consumed with wonder as to whom the guilty man can be."--_The Evening Standard._
+The Man who Drove the Car+ _By Max Pemberton_
"Excellent and thrilling reading."--_The Morning Leader._
"The book is excellent reading."--_The Daily Express._
"Exciting enough to please the most blase reader of sensational fiction."--_North Mail._
"A thoroughly delightful book, absorbing, and of tense interest throughout."--_The Liverpool Daily Post._
Humorous & Breezy Books.
+Stranleigh's Millions+ _By Robert Barr_
"He is a good fellow, and, like Mr. Barr, invariably entertaining."--_Daily Graphic._
"Very amusing, very delightful."--_The Globe._
+Sea Dogs+ _By Morley Roberts_
"A jolly collection."--_The Evening Standard._
"Mighty interesting."--_The Daily Chronicle._
"A bright and breezy book."--_The Daily Mail._
"Very funny indeed ... the whole book is one good laugh."--_The Observer._
"For wit and humour and invention it would be hard to beat."--_The Referee._
_VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED_ :: :: SOCIAL COMEDIES :: ::
+A Honeymoon--And After+ _By F. C. Philips & Percy Fendall_
"A really clever novel of modern society life."--_The Dundee Advertiser._
"A well-written and clever novel."--_The Dublin Express._
"A bright, well-written story that holds the reader till the end."--_The Pall Mall Gazette._
"Owes much of its sustained interest to ruthless pictures of life in frivolous West-end circles."--_The Daily Chronicle._
+Envious Eliza+ _By Madame Albanesi_
"Eliza is charming."--_The Standard._
"Human and genuine throughout."--_The Morning Leader._
"The reader is carried on to the end with unabated pleasure and zest."--_The Bookman._
"The authoress has the gift of informing her characters with life and charm.... The book cannot fail to consolidate the position which the authoress has won by her earlier works."--_The Daily News._
+Jack and Three Jills+ _By F. G. Philips_
_Author of "As in a Looking Glass," etc._
"An arresting and clever piece of observation."--_Bystander._
"An entertaining story of legal life.... Jack ... is frank, manly, and generally attractive."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
+The Divine Fire+ _By May Sinclair_
"Judged by almost every standard to which a comedy like this should be referred, I find her book the most remarkable that I have read for many years."--Mr. Owen Seaman in _Punch._
"A novel to read, and what is more to keep and read again."--_Outlook._
+A Lucky Young Woman+ _By F. C. Philips_
"Shows us the author at his best."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
Yorkshire Life.
+Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps+ _By J. S. Fletcher_
"Excellent ... comic and tragic episodes of Yorkshire life, rich in character and dramatic force."--_The Morning Leader._
A Masterpiece of Fiction.
+The Nun+ _By Rene Bazin_
"A book which no one who reads it will ever forget."--_The Westminster Gazette._
"It is difficult to speak in measured terms of this exquisite story ... a consummate artist, his work eats into the heart, and lives in the memory as do but few books from modern authors."--_The Daily Telegraph._
"It is long since we have read a tragedy so intensely moving as the story of this innocent peasant girl.... 'The Nun' is a masterwork of fiction."--_The Daily Graphic._
TRANSCRIBER'S
NOTES:
1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters' errors;otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author'swords and intent.
2. In the advertising pages, titles were in bold font; + has been usedin this text version to indicate that.
3. Following the title page, this edition included a page of magazineand newspaper reviews of William Le Queux's books. This has been movedto just before the advertising pages at the end of this e-text.
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