The Secret Of The Smoked Spectacles
Written by
William Le Queux
Copyright 1903
8th adventure in the collection . A chance meeting and befriending with a mysterious German while in Southern France turns extremely fortuitous two years later when Duckwork Drew is captured as a spy in Russia. Certain to spend the rest of his life in Siberia, he is astonished when the German obtains him release to return to England. Things get stranger still.