The Cabinet Minister: By William Le Queux. Cloth, and with an attractive coloured wrapper, 3s. 6d. net.
Mr. Le Queux's famous detective novels need no introduction to readers; they sell by the tens of thousands. The "Cabinet Minister" is a new novel with a weird and fascinating plot which holds the reader from the first page to the last. His Majesty's Cabinet Minister, Mr. George Chesham, has disappeared in very mysterious circumstances, and in his place is a dead stranger, who let himself into the house with Mr. Chesham's own latch-key. This is the problem set for the public and readers to unravel. The story is full of highly exciting incidents of love and adventure, with a strong detective interest—the Covers unravelling the mystery—in the true Le Queux style.
The Secret Monitor: By Guy Thorne. Author of "The Secret Submarine." Cloth, with an attractive coloured wrapper, 3s. 6d. net.
A remarkable, thrilling and swiftly-moving story of love, adventure and mystery woven round about half a dozen characters on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, Liverpool and elsewhere, in connection with the invention of a new material made from papier mâché (destined to take the place of steel), and the building of a wonderful new ship from it. Finally, when launched, "The Secret Monitor" goes on a mission to destroy a German base, and a succession of breathless adventures follow. This novel ought to considerably increase the popularity which has been gradually and consistently growing for Mr. Guy Thorne's mystery novels. No one, after picking up the book, will want to put it down until the last page is read.
SKEFFINGTON'S 1s. 6d. NOVELS.
BOUND, AND WITH ATTRACTIVE PICTORIAL WRAPPERS.
Sir Nigel: By A. Conan Doyle.
Spragge's Canyon: By H. A. Vachell (Author of "Quinneys").
The Great Plot: By William Le Queux, "The Master of Mystery."
The Mysterious Mr. Miller: By William Le Queux, "The Master of Mystery."
The Leavenworth Case: By Anna Katherine Green.
Also uniform with the above:
A Woman Spy: Further confessions and experiences of Germany's principal Secret Service woman, Olga von Kopf, edited by Henry de Halsalle.