Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by Beatrice Whistler, John Syer and William Logsdail. A fortune quietly bled out of a family by someone in the house, and the man who traces where it went. Le Queux is at his most workmanlike here - no spies, just a patient theft. This edition binds 59 plates after Beatrice Whistler, Robert Gibb, James Guthrie and Walter Greaves, among others, with one restored and coloured in-text illustration.

William Le Queux (1864-1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and novelist born in London. He was a foreign correspondent, an early wireless experimenter, and a tireless self-publicist who insisted he had served as a secret agent. His works include The Great War in England in 1897, Spies of the Kaiser, The Money-Spider, and The Pauper of Park Lane.