The Marked Man Three Knots A Woman's Debt The Young Archduchess The Sign of the Stranger No. 7 Saville Square The Little Blue Goddess The Lady-in-Waiting As We Forgive Them Scribes and Pharisees The Day of Temptation The Bronze Face An Eye for an Eye Sins of the City Guilty Bonds The Court of Honour The Idol of the Town The Broken Thread If Sinners Entice Thee The Bond of Black In White Raiment The Valrose Mystery The Lure of Love The Scarlet Sign The Mysterious Three The Black Owl No Greater Love The House of Evil The Hotel X
"Mr. Le Queux is the master of mystery. He never fails to produce the correct illusion. He always leaves us panting for more--a brilliant feat."--_Daily Graphic_.
Upon Trevanion's death the old home had to be sold, but Nancy, his only daughter, insisted upon the sale being subject to an option enabling her to buy it back within five years for £10,000. She might have accomplished her end there and then had she been willing to marry the son of her father's one-time stableman, but being a Trevanion of Trevanion Court she was even prouder than she was poor. How she obtained the necessary money, and what surprising adventures befell her before she could achieve her aim, is told in Mr. Joseph Hocking's best vein in this vivid and realistic story.
There are few better story-tellers than Mr. Joseph Hocking, especially when he is dealing with his beloved Cornwall. His stories are thrillingly interesting, and rivet the attention of the reader from beginning to end.
The Croziers are stubborn North-country yeomen, whose temperament accounts for the misfortunes that follow the house. Isaac, the last of the old parsimonious school, pushed on by his avaricious wife, cheats his brother and seizes the inheritance of his nephew, who is supposititiously killed by accident in the dark. Mark, another nephew, and the girl he marries, stand for a fresh and generous type, but he has inherited the family temperament and feels his business is to solve the puzzle of his brother's death. The background for the story is English moorland and Canadian forest.
The Mountaineers The League of the Leopard The Man from the Wilds The Allinson Honour The Impostor The Pioneer Musgrave's Luck Hawtrey's Deputy The Head of the House The Keystone Block Dearham's Inheritance The Wilderness Patrol The Trustee The Lute Player Agatha's Fortune A Debt of Honour The Broken Net A Risky Game Askew's Victory Carmen's Messenger The Dust of Conflict Sadie's Conquest A Damaged Reputation Helen the Conqueror Footsteps Sour Grapes