The Stretton Street Affair

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William Le Queux. The Stretton Street Affair

The Stretton Street Affair

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PROLOGUE. IS ABOUT MYSELF

CHAPTER THE FIRST. INTRODUCES OSWALD DE GEX

CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE SISTER’S STORY

CHAPTER THE THIRD. WHO WAS GABRIELLE ENGLEDUE?

CHAPTER THE FOURTH. FACING THE MUSIC

CHAPTER THE FIFTH. THE CITY OF THE LILY

CHAPTER THE SIXTH. ANOTHER PUZZLE

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH. THE MILLIONAIRE’S APPREHENSIONS

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. LITTLE MRS. CULLERTON

CHAPTER THE NINTH. SOME PLAIN SPEAKING

CHAPTER THE TENTH. MONSIEUR SUZOR AGAIN

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH. THE ABSOLUTE FACTS

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH “RED, GREEN AND GOLD!”

CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH. SOME INTERESTING REVELATIONS

CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH. THE GATE OF THE SUN

CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH. THE INTRUDER

CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH. ANOTHER STRANGE DISCLOSURE

CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH. WHAT THE PROFESSOR FOUND

CHAPTER THE EIGHTEENTH. MORE ABOUT THE MYSTERY-MAN

CHAPTER THE NINETEENTH. THE TRACK OF DESPUJOL

CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH. MADEMOISELLE JACQUELOT

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST. AT THE HÔTEL LUXEMBOURG

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND. GABRIELLE AT HOME

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-THIRD. THE DEATH-DRUG

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FOURTH. YET ANOTHER MYSTERY

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIFTH. WHAT THE VALET KNEW

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SIXTH. MORE ABOUT MATEO SANZ

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SEVENTH. A CURIOUS STORY

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-EIGHTH. LOVE THE CONQUEROR

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-NINTH. ANOTHER PLOT

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William Le Queux

PROLOGUE

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Yet in our post-war days in London the man who ventures about town after dark can easily meet with as strange occurrences and narrow escapes as ever were described by the pioneers of Central Africa. The explorer Stanley himself declared that the African jungle was safer than the crossing of the Strand.

I suppose I must have remained in the chair into which I again sank for a further ten minutes. My head swam. My mental balance seemed to have become strangely upset by that highly pungent odour of lavender and verbena. I could even taste it upon my tongue, and somehow it seemed to paralyse all my senses save two, those of sight and reason.

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