“No. 101”
Wymond Carey
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Description
Wymond Carey builds a spy tale on a true scrap of record in a romance issued by G P Putnam's Sons in 1905. The price was one dollar and fifty cents. A note before the tale tells the facts.
Unpublished despatches in the British Museum's Record Office show the case. More than once, the British Government drew French state secrets from an agent called No 101. No one knows who the agent was. Man or woman, the record does not say. The ministers may never have known themselves. They may have dealt throughout with a cipher whose secret they never pierced. Yet the agent stood placed to learn the most intricate designs of the French Court. Carey fills that blank with a romance of the French court and its hunters.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wymond Carey |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 494 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |