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Hushed Up! A Mystery of London

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by William Le Queux


  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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