Hetty Wesley by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Fiction, Mysteries, Espionage & Detective Stories 7+

📙 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, who sometimes wrote as "Q," was a writer with tremendous range. Some of his work is what you'd expect from someone of Oscar Wilde's social class (though, if he had Wilde's talent, he'd have endured a lot more thoroughly than he has) -- quaintly quietly social stories from a member of the English gentry. Some of it (more successfully, we'd say) seems to ape Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure works, like Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hetty Wesley is somewhere between those two poles: it's a mystery, the tale of an Englishman who's worked a lifetime in India -- and vanished on the voyage home. We like it, a lot. We think you will, too.