author
William Le Queux
1864–1927
A master of early spy fiction, this prolific journalist-novelist turned fears of invasion, secrecy, and political intrigue into page-turning popular fiction. His stories helped shape the modern thriller long before espionage became a genre of its own.
95 Audiobooks
The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias
by William Le Queux
The gamblers
by William Le Queux
If Sinners Entice Thee
by William Le Queux
The Four Faces: A Mystery
by William Le Queux
The Great War in England in 1897
by William Le Queux
Behind the bronze door
by William Le Queux
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love
by William Le Queux
The Great Court Scandal
by William Le Queux
The House of Whispers
by William Le Queux
The Tickencote Treasure
by William Le Queux
The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason
by William Le Queux
German Spies in England: An Exposure
by William Le Queux
A woman's debt
by William Le Queux
The Under-Secretary
by William Le Queux
The Gay Triangle: The Romance of the First Air Adventurers
by William Le Queux
An Eye for an Eye
by William Le Queux
The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia
by William Le Queux
The Invasion
by William Le Queux
Whither Thou Goest
by William Le Queux
Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara
by William Le Queux
The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London
by William Le Queux
The Pauper of Park Lane
by William Le Queux
Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?
by William Le Queux
The Wiles of the Wicked
by William Le Queux
The Lady in the Car
by William Le Queux
The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia
by William Le Queux
This House to Let
by William Le Queux
An Observer in the Near East
by William Le Queux
The Veiled Man Being an Account of the Risks and Adventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Maraude
by William Le Queux
The Place of Dragons: A Mystery
by William Le Queux
The Sign of the Stranger
by William Le Queux
The crystal claw
by William Le Queux
The Sign of Silence
by William Le Queux
The Count's Chauffeur
by William Le Queux
Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe
by William Le Queux
The Intriguers
by William Le Queux
The Lost Million
by William Le Queux
Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying
by William Le Queux
German Atrocities: A Record of Shameless Deeds
by William Le Queux
The Seven Secrets
by William Le Queux
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
by William Le Queux
The Mysterious Three
by William Le Queux
Her Majesty's Minister
by William Le Queux
The Great God Gold
by William Le Queux
Number 70, Berlin: A Story of Britain's Peril
by William Le Queux
Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England
by William Le Queux
Whoso Findeth a Wife
by William Le Queux
Behind the Throne
by William Le Queux
The White Lie
by William Le Queux
A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist
by William Le Queux
The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime
by William Le Queux
As We Forgive Them
by William Le Queux
The Day of Temptation
by William Le Queux
The Secrets of Potsdam A Startling Exposure of the Inner Life of the Courts of the Kaiser and Crown-Prince
by William Le Queux
Devil's Dice
by William Le Queux
El tesoro misterioso
by William Le Queux
The Temptress
by William Le Queux
The Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless Mystery
by William Le Queux
The Golden Face: A Great 'Crook' Romance
by William Le Queux
The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return
by William Le Queux
The Red Widow; or, The Death-Dealers of London
by William Le Queux
Whatsoever a Man Soweth
by William Le Queux
Stolen Souls
by William Le Queux
The Mystery of the Green Ray
by William Le Queux
The Hunchback of Westminster
by William Le Queux
The Red Room
by William Le Queux
Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
by William Le Queux
In White Raiment
by William Le Queux
Beryl of the Biplane: Being the Romance of an Air-Woman of To-Day
by William Le Queux
The Stretton Street Affair
by William Le Queux
Guilty Bonds
by William Le Queux
The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History
by William Le Queux
The Way to Win
by William Le Queux
This House to Let
by William Le Queux
The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery
by William Le Queux
The Bond of Black
by William Le Queux
At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium
by William Le Queux
The Broken Thread
by William Le Queux
Tracked by Wireless
by William Le Queux
The Mysterious Mr. Miller
by William Le Queux
Fatal fingers : A mystery
by William Le Queux
The indiscretions of a lady's maid : Being some strange stories related by Mademoiselle Mariette Le Bas, femme-de-chambre
by William Le Queux
The crime code
by William Le Queux
The rat trap
by William Le Queux
The looker-on : A romance of journalistic London
by William Le Queux
The dangerous game
by William Le Queux
The sting
by William Le Queux
Things I know about kings, celebrities, and crooks
by William Le Queux
The Sign of the Seven Sins
by William Le Queux
The money-spider
by William Le Queux
Poison shadows
by William Le Queux
The house of evil
by William Le Queux
The three glass eyes : A story of to-day
by William Le Queux
About the author
Born on July 2, 1864, William Le Queux was a French-English journalist and writer whose career ranged far beyond the novel. He was also known as a traveler, war correspondent, and honorary consul for San Marino, and his wide experience fed the restless, international feel of his fiction.
Le Queux became one of the best-known popular writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. He wrote large numbers of mystery, adventure, and espionage stories, and is especially remembered for sensational invasion and spy novels such as The Great War in England in 1897 and The Invasion of 1910. His work mixed politics, suspense, and alarmist imagination in a way that strongly influenced the early thriller.
He remained a colorful public figure, with interests that reportedly stretched to aviation and early wireless broadcasting. William Le Queux died on October 13, 1927, and he is still remembered as one of the writers who helped turn espionage fiction into mass entertainment.