The Secret Of The Little Countess
Written by
William Le Queux
Copyright 1903
4th adventure in the collection . Duckworth Drew is in Rome he meets a friend in the Italian army who introduces him to a very pretty young girl, a countess from Verona. He becomes intrigued when at a formal state dinner he sees the same woman and learns she is really the wife of a prominent French official. He becomes certain she is a spy but for whom against whom?