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_aLe Queux, William, _d1864-1927 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe crime code |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aEnglish edition (Hodder and Stoughton) has title: Double nought. | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-04-06 | ||
| 508 | _aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer | ||
| 520 | _a"The Crime Code" by William Le Queux is a crime-thriller novel written in the early 20th century. 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 opening of the story introduces Lionel’s privileged background, secret engagement, and gambling habit before a rainy-night scuffle in Bloomsbury leaves a man dead and Lionel fleeing in panic. He disguises himself as a lorry-driver, returns to London under an alias, and hides in shabby Camberwell lodgings, where a sharp-eyed fellow tenant, Lisely Hatten, begins to suspect him. After a clandestine meeting with his sympathetic father—and fresh press reports revealing the victim was a notorious burglar—Lionel blunders, in a dense fog, into a nearby house where a foreign gang is dividing stolen jewels; Lisely is among them, and they brand Lionel a police spy, planning to blind him. Drugged during the ordeal, he awakens abruptly at a glittering British Embassy dinner in Rome—bewildered, in diplomatic uniform, dancing with the captivating Contessina Angela—before returning to his hotel, where a Swiss-letter awaits, closing this disorienting, high-tension beginning. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Macaulay Company, 1928 |
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| 653 | _aDetective and mystery stories | ||
| 653 | _aLondon (England) -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aCriminals -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aGangs -- Fiction | ||
| 653 | _aThrillers (Fiction) | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Crime_Code/G6XcTbkCiQAC?hl=en&gbpv=0 | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78372 |
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