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The Adventures of Heine
The narrative follows Heine, a boastful German secret agent, as he recounts his wartime exploits in Britain with sardonic humor and self-aggrandizing flair.
"The adventures of Heine" by Edgar Wallace is a collection of espionage stories. The narrative follows Heine, a boastful German secret agent, as he recounts his wartime exploits in Britain with sardonic humor and self-aggrandizing flair.
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Secret Service work is a joke in peace time and it is paid on joke rates. People talk of the fabulous sums of money which our Government spend on this kind of work, and I have no doubt a very large sum was spent every year, but it had to go a long way. Even Herr Kressler, of the Bremen-America Line, who gave me my monthly cheque, used to nod and wink when he handed over my two hundred marks.
“Ah, my good Heine,” he would say, stroking his stubbly beard, “they make a fool of me, the Government, but I suppose I mustn’t ask who is your other paymaster?”
“Herr Kressler,” said I earnestly, “I assure you that this is the whole sum I receive from the Government.”
“So!” he would say and shake his head: “Ah, you are close fellows and I mustn’t ask questions!”
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Alexander and the Lady
- 02Chapter II. The Man Who Dwelt on a Hill
- 03Chapter III. The Lovely Miss Harrymore
- 04Chapter IV. The Affair of Mister Haynes
- 05Chapter V. The Man from the Stars
- 06Chapter VI. The Affair of the Allies’ Conference
- 07Chapter VII. The Word of a Prince
- 08Chapter VIII. The Jermyn Credit Bank
- 09Chapter IX. Mr. Collingrey, M.p.—Pacifist!
- 10Chapter X. The Grey Envelope
- 11Chapter XI. The Murderers
- 12Chapter XII. The Passing of Heine
- 13Chapter XIII. The U-Boat Adventure
- 14Chapter XIV. Brethren of the Order
- 15Chapter XV. The World Dictator
- 16Chapter XVI. The Syren
- 17Chapter XVII. The Coming of the Bolsheviks
- 18Chapter XVIII. The Going of Heine
- 19Endnotes
- 20Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- Edgar Wallace
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 257 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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