Hushed Up!: A Mystery of London

By William Le Queux

A young man is drawn to a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past... a past that seems to have returned to cause her disappearance! "One long gasp from beginning to end."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Classics
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781609771744

William Le Queux

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist, novelist, and radio broadcaster. Born in London to a French father and English mother, Le Queux studied art in Paris and embarked on a walking tour of Europe before finding work as a reporter for various French newspapers. Towards the end of the 1880s, he returned to London where he edited Gossip and Piccadilly before being hired as a reporter for The Globe in 1891. After several unhappy years, he left journalism to pursue his creative interests. Le Queux made a name for himself as a leading writer of popular fiction with such espionage thrillers as The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and The Invasion of 1910 (1906). In addition to his writing, Le Queux was a notable pioneer of early aviation and radio communication, interests he maintained while publishing around 150 novels over his decades long career.

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Reviews for Hushed Up!

[devenish_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A medium story by this author. I really liked the scene in which our hero is captured,arms and legs held in a mechanical chair which then tipped him up-side-down. An open sided box was then attached to his face.In the box a snake held back by a cord,which was being burnt through by a candle-flame. Wow,Dick Barton eat your heart out !Apart from this,a very average thriller.