Project Gutenberg 2025-08-15 Public domain in the USA. 379 Le Queux, William 1864 1927 Queux, William Le Queux, William Tufnell Le Queux, William le The Sign of the Seven Sins $aPhiladelphia :$bJ. B. Lippincott Company, $c1900. Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) The Sign of the Seven Sins by William Le Queux is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a romantic-sensation mystery set on the Riviera, where Monte Carlo’s glitter conceals a web of crime, secrets, and temptation. Narrated by the young American-Italian Carmela Rosselli, the story entwines her travels with her worldly friend Ulrica Yorke, a sudden murder, an enigmatic millionaire, and a masked figure called “The Owl,” hinting that love, money, and danger will collide. The opening of the novel follows Carmela from Washington to London, Paris, and finally Nice, where she and Ulrica fall into the Monte Carlo orbit with two American acquaintances, Gerald Keppel and Reginald Thorne. After a lucky afternoon at roulette and a glittering dinner at Ciro’s—during which Carmela glimpses her former lover Ernest Cameron with another woman—Reggie wins a fortune, steps away to change his notes, and is later found dead in the women’s hotel sitting-room, the cash gone and the cause unclear. The police inquiry yields nothing but suspicion and press sniping, while Carmela and Ulrica draw closer to Gerald’s austere, eccentric father, the millionaire Benjamin Keppel, who secretly turns ivory and proposes a yacht cruise. As Carnival peaks, a masked “Owl” dances with Carmela and seeks a private audience, declaring he knows the truth about Reggie’s death and insisting robbery was not the motive. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn5lwd 20190827035754lequeux 1900 US Reading ease score: 71.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Detective and mystery stories Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction Monte-Carlo (Monaco) -- Fiction Riviera (France) -- Fiction PR Text Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery Category: Novels Category: British Literature 358467 2025-09-30T08:45:42.877113 text/html 333046 2025-08-14T23:31:41 text/html 698901 2025-09-30T08:45:49.245114 application/epub+zip 695499 2025-09-30T08:45:44.282094 application/epub+zip 298753 2025-09-30T08:45:43.557109 application/epub+zip 1284938 2025-09-30T08:45:52.885030 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1017888 2025-09-30T08:45:48.623103 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 319680 2025-09-30T08:45:42.156106 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 299759 2025-08-14T23:31:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17170 2025-09-30T08:45:53.543058 application/rdf+xml 18094 2025-09-30T08:45:43.748064 image/jpeg 3078 2025-09-30T08:45:43.650064 image/jpeg 952933 2025-09-30T08:45:42.928078 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