Confessions of a Ladies’ Man: Being the Adventures of Cuthbert Croom, of His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service

William Le Queux

London

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Hutchinson

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Hutchinson Uniform Series Edition.

16cm x 10.5cm. 320 pages, frontispiece. Original red cloth.

Spy stories featuring the ladies’ man agent, Cuthbert Croom, by diplomat and prolific writer of romance, mystery, thriller, and espionage tales, William Tufnell Le Queux (1864-1927). “if Cuthbert Croom, secret agent in His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, had been less of a ladies’ man he would have been a far more successful agent. Mr. Croom was supposed to be a clever unraveller of mysteries, yet in the fifteen stories that make up this book, Cuthbert Croom confesses how he was caught again and again in a net spread in sight of the bird. He never went abroad but mysterious ladies attracted his attention, turned appealing eyes towards him, and were induced to pour their tales of woe into his sympathetic ears. The ladies, in an exceptional number of cases, turned out to be princesses, or at least they said they were, which is not always the same thing. On various occasions Mr. Croom found himself cast into dungeons and cellars and murderous weapons descended upon him, moved by mysterious mechanical contrivances. We read in several stories how different ladies were each the one love of Cuthbert Croom’s life.” (Canadian Bookseller and Stationers’ Journal, Vol. 18, 1905)

Discolouration to spine. Minor foxing, tanning, and creasing. Upper hinge very tender. Fair Condition.