William Le Queux Audiobooks

William Le Queux

1864–1927

A wildly popular early master of spy fiction, he turned fears of invasion, secret plots, and political intrigue into fast-moving stories that gripped readers before the First World War. His life as a journalist, traveler, and public commentator gave his thrillers an extra spark of urgency.

About the author

Born in 1864, William Le Queux was a French-English journalist and novelist who became one of the best-known writers of popular suspense and espionage fiction in the late Victorian and Edwardian years. He wrote prolifically across adventure, mystery, and political thriller genres, building a huge readership with stories that played on public anxieties about spies, war, and national security.

His background was unusually varied. Alongside his writing career, he worked as a journalist, traveled widely in Europe, the Balkans, and North Africa, and served as honorary consul for San Marino. He was also known for his interest in new technology and aviation, interests that helped give his fiction a modern, restless energy.

Today he is often remembered for helping shape the early spy novel. His books can feel sensational, but they also capture the mood of an era preoccupied with invasion scares and hidden enemies. He died in 1927, leaving behind a large body of fiction that still offers a vivid glimpse into the popular thrillers of his time.

William Le Queux

96 Audiobooks

The Bomb-Makers Being Some Curious Records Concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an Enemy Alien in London, Together with Certain Revelations Regarding His Daughter Ella

The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias

The gamblers

If Sinners Entice Thee

The Four Faces: A Mystery

Behind the bronze door

The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love

The Great War in England in 1897

Rasputin the Rascal Monk Disclosing the Secret Scandal of the Betrayal of Russia by the Mock-Monk Grichka and the Consequent Ruin of the Romanoffs. With official documents revealed and recorded for the first time.

The House of Whispers

The Great White Queen: A Tale of Treasure and Treason

The Great Court Scandal

German Spies in England: An Exposure

The Tickencote Treasure

A woman's debt

The Gay Triangle: The Romance of the First Air Adventurers

The Under-Secretary

The Invasion

Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara

An Eye for an Eye

An Observer in the Near East

The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London

The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia

Whither Thou Goest

The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia

The Place of Dragons: A Mystery

Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?

The Sign of Silence

The Lost Million

The crystal claw

The Veiled Man Being an Account of the Risks and Adventures of Sidi Ahamadou, Sheikh of the Azjar Maraude

The Pauper of Park Lane

The Wiles of the Wicked

The Count's Chauffeur

The Sign of the Stranger

Sant of the Secret Service: Some Revelations of Spies and Spying

The Intriguers

This House to Let

The Seven Secrets

Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo

The White Lie

German Atrocities: A Record of Shameless Deeds

The Mysterious Three

Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe

The Great God Gold

Number 70, Berlin: A Story of Britain's Peril

Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England

Behind the Throne

Her Majesty's Minister

The Lady in the Car

The Doctor of Pimlico: Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime

The Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless Mystery

Devil's Dice

The Red Widow; or, The Death-Dealers of London

The Secrets of Potsdam A Startling Exposure of the Inner Life of the Courts of the Kaiser and Crown-Prince

As We Forgive Them

The Red Room

Whoso Findeth a Wife

Whatsoever a Man Soweth

The Mystery of the Green Ray

The Golden Face: A Great 'Crook' Romance

The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return

A Secret Service: Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist

Hushed Up! A Mystery of London

The Temptress

The Day of Temptation

El tesoro misterioso

The Hunchback of Westminster

Stolen Souls

The Way to Win

Guilty Bonds

The Stretton Street Affair

Beryl of the Biplane: Being the Romance of an Air-Woman of To-Day

In White Raiment

The Bond of Black

The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery

The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being Some Chapters of Secret History

This House to Let