Ernest William Hornung 
Dead Men Tell No Tales [EPUB ebook] 

A fantastic mystery novel by the famous author of the ‘Raffles’ series, Ernest William ‘Willie’ Hornung. A man survives a fire on the ship he was taking from Australia to England, losing his love, the beautiful Eva Denison. He seeks to lose himself in the streets of London, but finds that someone is following him — leading him to uncover a sinister conspiracy…Warning: this book was written in 1897 and is as such a product of its time. Some of the language used may be insulting or profane to a modern audience.