"The Stretton Street Affair" by William Le Queux is a thrilling mystery set in post-war London, following the journey of Hugh Garfield, a young electrical engineer, into a treacherous world of secrets and lies. Garfield's life takes a dramatic turn when a chance meeting on a train plunges him into the orbit of the wealthy Oswald De Gex, leading him to a mansion where a young woman’s sudden death sparks a web of intrigue. After a bribe, a strange sickness, and waking up disoriented in a foreign hospital with memory loss, Garfield is consumed by the need to uncover the truth behind the beautiful, mysterious girl's demise. As Garfield seeks answers, he must grapple with his own fragmented memories and the unsettling reality that nothing is as it seems, forcing him to confront deception and betrayal at every turn.
The Stretton Street Affair
By William Le Queux
A young man's life is upended by a mysterious death, a shocking bribe, and lost memories, pulling him into a dangerous game of uncovering dark secrets.
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About the AuthorWilliam Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat, a traveller, a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
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