The Firefly Of France

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Published in 1918, The Firefly of France is a World War I adventure novel by Marion Polk Angellotti. The story follows Devereux Bayne, a wealthy young American staying at a New York hotel on the eve of his departure for France, where he plans to drive an ambulance for the Allied cause. On his last night in the city, a burglar breaks into his room, a beautiful young woman appears under mysterious circumstances, and a set of coded papers falls into his hands — launching him into an espionage plot that will pursue him across the Atlantic and behind enemy lines.

First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in early 1918, the novel blends romance, mystery, and wartime danger in the tradition of popular magazine fiction of the era. The story moves briskly from fashionable New York to the trenches and villages of wartime France. The Firefly of France is in the public domain and freely available through Project Gutenberg.

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