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Under Monte Carlo’s glittering lights, fortunes change hands—and a stranger’s name may hide more than it reveals.
In Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, William Le Queux takes you to the French Riviera, where luxury and danger share the same bright setting. Strangers meet around the casino tables. Money is at risk, but gambling is only part of the mystery: secrets, false names, and people who are not what they claim keep the plot moving.
Chance and greed run through a story built on disguise and the willingness to stake everything on one turn. Le Queux uses direct sentences, short chapters, and scenes that close at moments of tension. The sunlit resort offers a vivid contrast to its hidden dangers, inviting you to look beyond the glitter and question appearances.
What you’ll discover
- Glitter with a dangerous edge Enter a grand Riviera resort where luxury provides the setting for secrets and risk.
- Names that conceal Follow a mystery whose false identities make appearances something to question, not trust.
- More than a game See gambling become an expression of chance, greed, and the urge to risk everything.
- Tension at the turn Short chapters and tense scene endings give you reasons to keep reading.
- An old-fashioned mystery Enjoy a direct, plot-led tale that puts secrets and disguise at its heart.
Who will love it
You will enjoy this book if you like glamorous settings, secret identities and fast chases, and if a gentleman thief with a kind heart makes you smile.
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- A gambler holds a family secret
- A shot interrupts the truth
- Respectable hosts conceal a marriage plot
- Escape brings Hugh into criminal protection
- Dorise receives warnings from a stranger
- Rumors and betrayal narrow Hugh's choices
- Actions reveal more than social standing
- Small objects keep the mystery moving
- Hugh must discover whom to trust
Who’s who
- Hugh HenfreyA young Englishman who wants to learn how his father died and refuses to marry for money, though the police suspect him of a shooting.
- Dorise RanscombThe daughter of a wealthy engineer's widow, she loves Hugh and resists her mother's plan to marry her to a rich suitor.
- Yvonne FeradKnown as Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, a rich, lucky and mysterious gambler who seems to know the secret of Hugh's father's death.
- The SparrowA cunning, elderly master of a European thieves' network who moves under many names and protects Hugh for reasons of his own.
- Charles BentonHugh's father's polished friend and the guardian of Louise, who wants the old man's fortune and presses Hugh toward an unwanted marriage.
- Molly MaxwellA clever adventuress living as Mrs. Bond in Surrey, she hosts Hugh while keeping her own past hidden from the police.
- LisetteA young French decoy and thief in the Sparrow's service who befriends Hugh and knows more about his father than she will tell.
- Louise LambertBenton's real daughter, supposedly adopted, is a bright and trusting young woman who knows nothing of the plans that others are making around her.
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Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
by William Le Queux · 1921
A woman is shot at her Monte Carlo villa as she prepares to explain the death of Hugh Henfrey's father.
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What would you do if the one person who could explain your father's death were shot in front of you, and the police thought you pulled the trigger? That is where Hugh Henfrey finds himself in Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo, a crime novel by William Le Queux, who died in 1927.
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- 75,700 words
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1921by William Le Queux
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A Mystery Woman Wins at the Suicide's Chair
The story opens in the packed gambling rooms of Monte Carlo. Hugh Henfrey and his older friend Walter Brock watch a tall woman in black win the maximum bet time after time. She sits in the chair the staff call the Suicide's Chair, and she laughs at the superstition.
The croupiers call her Mademoiselle, and nobody knows who she is. Hugh has not come for pleasure. His father was found one night in a doorway in Albemarle Street, London, and died soon after, with only a tiny scratch on his palm. An unsigned letter had warned him to beware of Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo.
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Le Queux, William. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/mademoiselle-of-monte-carlo.
Le Queux, W. (2026). Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mademoiselle-of-monte-carlo (Original work published 1921)
Le Queux, William. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/mademoiselle-of-monte-carlo.
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What is Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo about?
It follows Hugh Henfrey, a young Englishman who goes to Monte Carlo to ask a famous gambler how his father died. She is shot as she starts to talk, and Hugh is hunted across Europe.
Who is the Sparrow in Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo?
The Sparrow, or Il Passero, is a legendary leader of an international gang of thieves who works under many names. He sends help to Hugh while keeping his own reasons secret, and he forbids killing.
Why is it called the Suicide's Chair?
At the roulette table, one chair is said to have been used by ten people who later took their own lives. Mademoiselle laughs at the superstition and wins from it, which adds to her legend.
The author
William Le Queux
1864–1927 · Anglo-French novelist
William Le Queux (1864–1927) was an Anglo-French writer born in London. He died in Knokke, Belgium. He wrote novels about espionage, crime and war. His books include The Great War in England in 1897, published in 1894, and The Czar’s Spy, published in 1905. He also worked with radio.
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