03240cam a2200589 i 4500 1468269523 TxAuBib 20240729120000.0 180720s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018952421 9781635060041 hardback 1635060044 hardback TxAuBib rda Lyle, H. B., author. The red ribbon / H.B. Lyle. New York : Quercus, 2018. 356 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "In 1910 London, Captain Vernon Kell's fledgling secret intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of saving the British Empire from German and Russian spies. Harassed by politicians like the ambitious Winston Churchill, bullied by Special Branch, undermined by his colleague's ill-advised foreign ventures, and alarmed at his wife's involvement with militant suffragettes, Kell is making no progress in tracking high-profile leaks from the government. To make matters worse, his best (and only) agent, Wiggins, would rather be working cases of his own. Wiggins grew up on the streets of London, one of the urchins trained in surveillance by Sherlock Holmes and known as the Baker Street Irregulars. He has promised to avenge the death of his best friend, and to track down a missing girl from the East End. But when his search takes him to an embassy in Belgravia--an embassy that's actually a high-class brothel presided over by the fearsome "Big T," one of his fellow Irregulars--Wiggins is drawn into a conspiracy that will test both his personal and professional resolve"--Provided by publisher. 20240729. Kell, Vernon, Sir, 1873-1942 Fiction. Intelligence officers Great Britain Fiction. Secret service Great Britain Fiction. Leaks (Disclosure of information) Great Britain Fiction. Undercover operations Great Britain Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Espionage, British Fiction. Baker Street Irregulars (Fictitious characters) Fiction. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators. Baker Street Irregulars (Fictitious characters.) fast Conspiracies. fast Espionage, British. fast Intelligence officers. fast Leaks (Disclosure of information.) fast Secret service. fast Spy stories. fast Undercover operations. fast Great Britain. fast Historical fiction. fast Mystery fiction. gsafd Spy stories. Detective and mystery fiction. fast Fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Spy fiction. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Spy fiction.