Hetty Wesley
                                            
                            By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
                            
                                26 Feb, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, who sometimes wrote as "Q," was a writer with tremendous range. Some of his work is what you'd expect from someone of Oscar Wilde's social class (though, if he had Wilde's talent, he'd have endured a lot more thoroughly t
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                                                Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, who sometimes wrote as "Q," was a writer with tremendous range. Some of his work is what you'd expect from someone of Oscar Wilde's social class (though, if he had Wilde's talent, he'd have endured a lot more thoroughly than he has) -- quaintly quietly social stories from a member of the English gentry. Some of it (more successfully, we'd say) seems to ape Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure works, like Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Hetty Wesley is somewhere between those two poles: it's a mystery, the tale of an Englishman who's worked a lifetime in India -- and vanished on the voyage home. Less