314 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Katherine Cecil Thurston (18 April 1874 - 5 September 1911) was an Irish novelist, best known for two political thrillers. In 1910, she was back on the same list at No. 4 with her novel Max, the story of a young Russian princess, who flees disguised as a boy to the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, on the night before her arranged marriage."