[Next project] The Spy in Black, by J. Storer Clouston

David

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Jul 13, 2025, 10:02:43 AM7/13/25

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I'm going to be travelling in the near future, so looking for a little light reading....

PG: The Spy in Black by J. Storer Clouston | ~51,000 words
IA: The spy in black : Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer), 1870-1944
Wp: The Spy in Black (novel) - Wikipedia
Repo: https://github.com/dajare/j-storer-clouston_the-spy-in-black

Looks pretty straightforward. The structure is interesting ("Parts" go back and forth between 1st and 3rd person narration).

Hope this looks okay to be getting on with!

David / Fife, UK

Alex Cabal

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Jul 13, 2025, 3:21:15 PM7/13/25

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OK, Vince will manage this with Weijia reviewing.

On 7/13/25 9:02 AM, David wrote:
> I'm going to be travelling in the near future, so looking for a little
> light reading....
>

> * PG: The Spy in Black by J. Storer Clouston <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33996> | ~51,000 words
> * IA: The spy in black : Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer),
> 1870-1944 <https://archive.org/details/spyinblack00clou/page/n5/
> mode/2up>
> * Wp: The Spy in Black (novel) - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/The_Spy_in_Black_(novel)>
> * Repo: https://github.com/dajare/j-storer-clouston_the-spy-in-black

>
> Looks pretty straightforward. The structure is interesting ("Parts" go
> back and forth between 1st and 3rd person narration).
>
> Hope this looks okay to be getting on with!
>
> David / Fife, UK
>

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Weijia Cheng

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Jul 13, 2025, 6:50:49 PM7/13/25

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Ok, noted.

David

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Jul 14, 2025, 9:40:21 AM7/14/25

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Almost unbelievably, I have a cover option to check out, Vince. If it works, it would super!

The novel takes place around Scapa Flow, Orkney, during WW1, with submarine action central to the plot.

Searching for that, I ran across W. L. Wyllie, noted for his maritime/naval paintings, including Scapa. But! He also painted this WW1 sub...

...for which I found "PD proof" (1918): image page | title page. And the cover would look like this:

IF it passes muster, I could probably use some Gigapixel help on the source image. What do you think? I live in hope....

Lukas Bystricky

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Jul 14, 2025, 12:53:44 PM7/14/25

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Wow, what a great find!

Vince

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Jul 14, 2025, 3:41:14 PM7/14/25

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Hah, I’m reading Churchill’s The World Crisis series on WWI, so Scapa Flow has been a constant topic. I’ve always liked the name “Scapa Flow" for some reason…

Perfect picture(!), PD proof looks good, I’ll upload it to the DB.

On Jul 14, 2025, at 11:53 AM, Lukas Bystricky <lukasby...@gmail.com> wrote:

Wow, what a great find!

On Monday, July 14, 2025 at 3:40:21 PM UTC+2 David wrote:

Almost unbelievably, I have a cover option to check out, Vince. If it works, it would super!

The novel takes place around Scapa Flow, Orkney, during WW1, with submarine action central to the plot.

Searching for that, I ran across W. L. Wyllie, noted for his maritime/naval paintings, including Scapa. But! He also painted this WW1 sub...
...for which I found "PD proof" (1918): image page | title page. And the cover would look like this:

David

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Jul 15, 2025, 4:09:58 AM7/15/25

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Remarkable serendipity! :) I'm glad it works — it seemed too good to be true.....

On Monday, 14 July 2025 at 20:41:14 UTC+1 Vince wrote:

Hah, I’m reading Churchill’s The World Crisis series on WWI, so Scapa Flow has been a constant topic. I’ve always liked the name “Scapa Flow" for some reason…

Perfect picture(!), PD proof looks good, I’ll upload it to the DB.

David

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Jul 24, 2025, 6:06:57 AM7/24/25

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I managed to find a few minutes on WiFi during my travels to finish this off. Fun read. :)

https://github.com/dajare/j-storer-clouston_the-spy-in-black

No particular "producer's notes" on this one, Weijia - ready for your review whenever you're ready for it. (There may be delays in my replies....) Thanks!

Weijia Cheng

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Jul 24, 2025, 5:55:54 PM7/24/25

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Noted, I will try to get on it soon!

Weijia Cheng

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Looks great! I found a few trivial issues.

Weijia Cheng

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Jul 29, 2025, 5:52:11 AM7/29/25

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Alex, this is ready for you.

Alex Cabal

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Jul 29, 2025, 12:54:55 PM7/29/25

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This ebook was produced by David Reimer. Thanks David!

Ebook URL:
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/j-storer-clouston/the-spy-in-black

GitHub URL:
https://github.com/standardebooks/j-storer-clouston_the-spy-in-black

Alex Cabal

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Jul 29, 2025, 12:55:05 PM7/29/25

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Great, I've gone ahead and released it. Very nice find for the cover!

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