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100	1		_aLe Queux, William, _d1864-1927
245	1	4	_aThe indiscretions of a lady's maid
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-30
505	0		_aMadame's gentleman friend -- The wardrobe drawer -- Little Mrs. Otway -- The Noah's ark -- Guilty bonds -- The mystery of Monsieur -- The chamber of secrets -- What was in the strong room -- Concerns two visitors -- Contains some revelations -- A queer ménage -- A peer of the realm -- Concerning Madame's luggage -- Madame and the butler -- The people at Lancaster Gate.
508			_aTim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520			_a"The indiscretions of a lady's maid" by William Le Queux is a collection of mystery stories written in the early 20th century. Told through the confessions of Mariette Le Bas, a savvy French lady’s maid, it peers behind elegant doors to reveal flirtations, swindles, thefts, and scandals in high society. Expect brisk, sensational episodes where a servant’s calm eye unmasks the secrets of the fashionable set. At the start of this collection, Mariette recounts a run of employers whose glossy lives hide sharp intrigues. With the Englehearts in Bayswater and at Monte Carlo, a flirtation with a supposed American millionaire and a butler’s collusion turn into a failed blackmail scheme that backfires, scattering the household and her job. In Bournemouth, the impeccable Lady Allardyce’s hidden drawer of jewels and tools foreshadows the arrest of her “friend” as a master jewel thief—later revealed to be her son. In Grosvenor Street, a newspaper proprietor’s wife entangles herself with a financier; after Mariette tails a visitor, the man is found shot, and a desperate confession shows the killing sprang from a struggle to retrieve explosive political papers—leaving Mariette to supply an alibi and then be quietly paid off. The next episode opens at the Savoy with the cosmopolitan Ashley-Bonds and their enigmatic friends, hinting at fresh intrigue to come. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Eveleigh Nash, 1911
653			_aMystery and detective stories
653			_aHousehold employees -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112049090233
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77575
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