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The Stretton Street Affair

First published: 1922
Pages: 271

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00 - Prologue
15:15
01 - Introduces Oswald De Gex
29:14
02 - The Sister's Story
18:47
03 - Who Was Gabrielle Engledue?
17:45
04 - Facing The Music
16:15
05 - The City Of The Lilly
17:03
06 - Another Puzzle
18:51
07 - The Millionaire's Apprehensions
19:40
08 - Little Mrs. Cullerton
19:33
09 - Some Plain Speaking
14:49
10 - Monsieur Suzor Again
17:38
11 - The Absolute Facts
18:22
12 - Red, Green, and Gold
17:24
13 - Some Interesting Revelations
17:01
14 - The Gate Of The Sun
15:55
15 - The Intruder
16:10
16 - Another Strange Disclosure
15:12
17 - What The Professor Found
16:14
18 - More About The Mystery Man
16:15
19 - The Track of Despujol
16:20
20 - Mademoiselle Jacquelot
16:38
21 - At The Hotel Luxembourgh
17:33
22 - Gabrielle At Home
16:06
23 - The Death Drug
17:59
24 - Yet Another Mystery
16:07
25 - What The Valet Knew
19:20
26 - More About Mateo Sanz
15:40
27 - A Curious Story
10:54
28 - Love The Conqueror
20:42
29 - Another Plot
7:31
30 - Conclusion
7:39

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Hugh Garfield, a young electrical engineer newly home from the war, is stopped on a London street one night and led into the Stretton Street mansion of Oswald De Gex, an immensely rich and secretive financier. There he is offered five hundred pounds to sign a certificate stating that a young woman has died of natural causes. The night ends with Garfield drugged and his memory in pieces, unsure of what he actually witnessed. William Le Queux published this mystery in 1922, building the puzzle around a poison called orosin, a suspicious death, and a pursuit that carries Garfield across Europe to Madrid and Segovia. It rewards readers who like the tangled, quick-moving crime fiction of the early 1920s, with Le Queux at his most conspiratorial.

Available edition: text of Project Gutenberg eBook #27147. The cover is an original BDeBooks design. The PDF has 271 pages; the EPUB is reflowable. Project Gutenberg credits and license are kept.

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William Le Queux

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French writer and self-styled secret agent, one of the earliest and most prolific authors of spy and invasion fiction.