The Romance of the Secret Service Fund Illustrated

Six spy-stories published in the US edition of Pearson's Magazine, Jul-Dec 1900. This series features Newton Moore, the top agent of a fictitious branch of the British War Office called "The Secret Service Fund." All of the stories in this series were illustrated by Victor Venn er.Fred Merrick White (1859-1935), a British author of many novels and short stories under the name "Fred M. White," was born in 1859 in West Bromidic, a small town near Birmingham, England. The record of his birth indicates that his first name was actually "Fred" - not, as is often assumed, "Frederick." His second name "Merrick" was the maiden name of his mother, Helen,