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100 1 _aWallace, Edgar,
_d1875-1932
245 1 4 _aThe adventures of Heine
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-07-08
505 0 _aAlexander and the lady -- The man who dwelt on a hill -- The lovely Miss Harrymore -- The affair of Mister Haynes -- The man from the stars -- The affair of the Allies' conference -- The word of a prince -- The Jermyn Credit Bank -- Mr. Collingrey, M.P.: pacifist! -- The grey envelope -- The murderers -- The passing of Heine -- The U-boat adventure -- Brethren of the Order -- The world dictator -- The syren -- The coming of the Bolsheviks -- The going of Heine.
508 _aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer
520 _a"The adventures of Heine" by Edgar Wallace is a collection of espionage stories written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows Heine, a boastful German secret agent, as he recounts his wartime exploits in Britain with sardonic humor and self-aggrandizing flair. Expect sly reversals, covert schemes, and satirical portraits of both spies and the supposed “enemy,” all filtered through Heine’s unreliable bravado. The opening of the narrative finds Heine reassigned from New York to London at the outbreak of war, where he quickly deploys agents using quirky identifiers and basks in his own cleverness. His star operative, Alexander Koos, courts a Woolwich engineer’s daughter for armament secrets but is outplayed by a young woman from British Intelligence and executed, forcing Heine to flee to Scotland. There, a supposed ally on a Highland hill proves to be a Swiss forger; Heine escapes while his colleague is arrested. Shifted to industrial propaganda in Manchester, Heine funds a fiery labor agitator, targets a chemical firm’s secret grenade plans, and clashes with the enigmatic Miss Harrymore—stealing a march on her by denouncing her as a German spy—only to learn she was actually a German agent, leaving him to spin a face-saving report as the section closes with mention of another captured operative and the introduction of Mister Haynes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1929
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
653 _aGermans -- England -- Fiction
653 _aSpy stories, English
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/bwb_KO-457-186/
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76462
999 _c117187
_d117187