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William Le Queux’s Lying Lips combines a criminal mystery with a romantic entanglement in which appearances and personal loyalties are difficult to trust. The narrative follows its protagonist through a series of disclosures involving Iris, her father and a wider circle whose identities and motives gradually become clearer.
Secrets about Paul’s death and the activities of a criminal gang give the story its momentum. The action moves between English settings and connections abroad, with Corfu and Albania forming part of the novel’s international background. Conversations, suspicions and revelations repeatedly alter the narrator’s understanding of the people around him.
Alongside the investigation is a courtship complicated by the same concealed past that drives the mystery. Le Queux brings the two strands together as the gang’s history is uncovered and the central relationships are resolved. Originally published in 1910, this is a complete adult suspense novel in the original Gutenberg EPUB transcription, retaining the edition’s publishing material and the full ending.