The Sting

Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Marianne North and William Quiller Orchardson. A baronet in debt, a secretary with ferret eyes, and a young man convicted of a crime his family knows he did not commit. Le Queux wrote over a hundred and fifty thrillers and had a genuine ear for the way blackmail is actually conducted — by hints, in comfortable rooms. The ...