Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery

Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England

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Chapters

4. CHAPTER III

It was past one o'clock in the morning. Two months had passed since the affair down at Portsmouth, but we had not been inactive. We were sitting before the great open fireplace...

10. CHAPTER IX

Certain observations we had kept had led us to believe that a frantic endeavour was being made to obtain certain details of a new type of gun, of enormous power and range, which...

2. CHAPTER I

"But if the new plans for our naval base at Rosyth have already been secured by Germany, I don't see what we can do," I remarked. "What's the use of closing the stable-door afte...

5. CHAPTER IV

"We're going down to Maldon, in Essex," Ray Raymond explained as we drove along in a taxi-cab to Liverpool Street Station late one grey snowy afternoon soon after our return fro...

3. CHAPTER II

We were seated together in our dismal chambers in New Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, one wet afternoon about six weeks after the Forth Bridge affair. With us, lolling in the sh...

8. CHAPTER VII

By appointment I had, for certain reasons that will afterwards be apparent, met, in the American Bar of the "Savoy," two hours before, the Honourable Robert Brackenbury, the dar...

7. CHAPTER VI

"I wonder if that fellow is aware of his danger?" remarked Ray, speaking to himself behind the paper he was reading before the fire in New Stone Buildings, one afternoon not lon...

9. CHAPTER VIII

There were none to overhear us. It was out of the season in Paris, and on that afternoon, the 15th of August, 1908, to be exact, we had driven by "auto" into the Bois, and were...

13. CHAPTER XII

I had been absent at Devonport, keeping observation upon the movements of two Germans who had once or twice paid visits to Hartmann, and who had evidently received his instructi...

6. CHAPTER V

"I think not," was his prompt reply. "My reason briefly is because I have discovered that two Germans stayed at the Blair Arms Hotel, at Blair Atholl, for six weeks last summer,...

11. CHAPTER X

A curious episode was that of the plans of the Clyde Defences. It was a February evening. Wet, tired, and hungry, I turned the long grey touring car into the yard of the old "Wh...

14. CHAPTER XIII

Vera had been staying in London with her aunt and had greatly assisted us in keeping observation upon two strangers who had arrived in London about a month ago, and who were sta...

12. CHAPTER XI

About six months after my curious motoring adventure in Essex I sent to the _Berliner Tageblatt_, in Berlin, an advertisement, offering myself as English valet to any German gen...

15. CHAPTER XIV

On the 20th of December, 1908, it rained incessantly in London, and well I recollect it. After lunch I sat in the club-window in St. James's Street, idly watching the drenched p...

1. CHAPTER XIV: PLAYING A DESPERATE GAME

THE EDGE O' BEYOND 275th Thousand PADDY, THE NEXT BEST THING 246th Thousand LOVE IN THE WILDERNESS 188th Thousand THE SILENT RANCHER 135th Thousand THE GREAT SPLENDOUR 140th Tho...