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The Crime Code
It likely follows Lionel Hipwell, a rising Foreign Office man and would‑be MP, who becomes a fugitive after a fatal street struggle and is swept into a labyrinth of jewel thieves, espionage, and high-stakes intrigue that stretches from London’s underworld to Continental diplomatic salons.
"The Crime Code" by William Le Queux is a crime-thriller novel. It likely follows Lionel Hipwell, a rising Foreign Office man and would‑be MP, who becomes a fugitive after a fatal street struggle and is swept into a labyrinth of jewel thieves, espionage, and high-stakes intrigue that stretches from London’s underworld to Continental diplomatic salons.
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At the outset I wish to impress on those who read this straightforward and unembellished narrative of my amazing and often exciting adventures, that I seek not to hide my own shortcomings, for they are alas! many; nor do I in the least desire to pose as a vainglorious hero. At least, I am not one who slops about in the oozy slime of the sex problem.
From leading the normal life of an ordinary young man about London, I was, by a strange freak of ill-fortune, and in the space of a single minute, plunged into a veritable vortex of doubt and misery, compelled to lead the life of a hunted criminal, and to resort to all sorts of ruses in order to retain my liberty. And yet, the events which led up to the sudden change in my life are such as might occur to any man, on any night, in any big city in the world.
Contents
- 01Chapter One. To Beg Pardon of the Reader
- 02Chapter Two. Threads of Iron
- 03Chapter Three. What the Papers Said
- 04Chapter Four. Deadly Peril
- 05Chapter Five. Held by the Enemy
- 06Chapter Six. Illona!
- 07Chapter Seven. The Awakening
- 08Chapter Eight. The Double Nought
- 09Chapter Nine. An Odd Mission
- 10Chapter Ten. The Wind of Circumstance
- 11Chapter Eleven. My Father’s Story
- 12Chapter Twelve. Missing
- 13Chapter Thirteen. An Affair in Fulham
- 14Chapter Fourteen. Some Curious Facts
- 15Chapter Fifteen. A Scrap of Music
- 16Chapter Sixteen. Tricked
- 17Chapter Seventeen. Across Europe
- 18Chapter Eighteen. “A Lady to See You, Sir!”
- 19Chapter Nineteen. Angela Is Frank
- 20Chapter Twenty. To-Morrow!
- 21Chapter Twenty-One. I Meet Illona
- 22Chapter Twenty-Two. “Remember the Name!”
- 23Chapter Twenty-Three. The Six Circles
- 24Chapter Twenty-Four. Some Plain Facts
- 25Chapter Twenty-Five. I Meet His Excellency
- 26Chapter Twenty-Six. Without Prejudice
- 27Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Shop-Window Clue
- 28Chapter Twenty-Eight. The Dark House
- 29Chapter Twenty-Nine. Conclusion
- 30Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- William Le Queux
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 226 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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