Project Gutenberg 2025-07-08 Public domain in the USA. 451 Wallace, Edgar 1875 1932 Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar The adventures of Heine $aLondon :$bWard, Lock & Co., Limited, $c1929. Alexander and the lady -- The man who dwelt on a hill -- The lovely Miss Harrymore -- The affair of Mister Haynes -- The man from the stars -- The affair of the Allies' conference -- The word of a prince -- The Jermyn Credit Bank -- Mr. Collingrey, M.P.: pacifist! -- The grey envelope -- The murderers -- The passing of Heine -- The U-boat adventure -- Brethren of the Order -- The world dictator -- The syren -- The coming of the Bolsheviks -- The going of Heine. an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "The adventures of Heine" by Edgar Wallace is a collection of espionage stories written in the early 20th century. The narrative follows Heine, a boastful German secret agent, as he recounts his wartime exploits in Britain with sardonic humor and self-aggrandizing flair. Expect sly reversals, covert schemes, and satirical portraits of both spies and the supposed “enemy,” all filtered through Heine’s unreliable bravado. The opening of the narrative finds Heine reassigned from New York to London at the outbreak of war, where he quickly deploys agents using quirky identifiers and basks in his own cleverness. His star operative, Alexander Koos, courts a Woolwich engineer’s daughter for armament secrets but is outplayed by a young woman from British Intelligence and executed, forcing Heine to flee to Scotland. There, a supposed ally on a Highland hill proves to be a Swiss forger; Heine escapes while his colleague is arrested. Shifted to industrial propaganda in Manchester, Heine funds a fiery labor agitator, targets a chemical firm’s secret grenade plans, and clashes with the enigmatic Miss Harrymore—stealing a march on her by denouncing her as a German spy—only to learn she was actually a German agent, leaving him to spin a face-saving report as the section closes with mention of another captured operative and the introduction of Mister Haynes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/bwb_KO-457-186/ 20250702111720wallace 1929 GB Reading ease score: 78.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction Germans -- England -- Fiction Spy stories, English PR Text Category: Short Stories Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: British Literature 576575 2025-07-30T08:17:38.276473 text/html 552660 2025-07-08T14:18:50 text/html 374371 2025-07-30T08:17:45.161419 application/epub+zip 383013 2025-07-30T08:17:39.425478 application/epub+zip 302055 2025-07-30T08:17:38.780458 application/epub+zip 475976 2025-07-30T08:17:49.577400 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 452639 2025-07-30T08:17:44.747536 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 537064 2025-07-30T08:17:36.834511 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 517310 2025-07-08T14:18:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14728 2025-07-30T08:17:49.734399 application/rdf+xml 7568 2025-07-30T08:17:38.993435 image/jpeg 1801 2025-07-30T08:17:38.886454 image/jpeg 396761 2025-07-30T08:17:38.326462 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia