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E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866–1946)

Autor/a de The Great Impersonation

266+ obres 3,013 Membres 58 Ressenyes 3 preferits

Sobre l'autor

A best-selling British author, E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) published over 150 books and countless magazine stories between 1884 and 1946
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Obres de E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Great Impersonation (1920) 317 exemplars
The Evil Shepherd (1922) 57 exemplars
The Double Traitor (1915) 55 exemplars
The Zeppelin's Passenger (1918) 48 exemplars
The Cinema Murder (1917) 46 exemplars
The Malefactor (1906) 46 exemplars
The Wicked Marquis (1919) 45 exemplars
A Prince of Sinners (1903) 43 exemplars
The Spy Paramount (1939) 43 exemplars
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915) 41 exemplars
The Curious Quest (1919) 40 exemplars
The Vanished Messenger (1914) 39 exemplars
Peter Ruff and the Double-Four (1912) 37 exemplars
The Kingdom of the Blind (1916) 37 exemplars
The Great Secret (2005) 36 exemplars
The Great Prince Shan (1922) 33 exemplars
The Devil's Paw (1920) 33 exemplars
The Golden Beast (1926) 32 exemplars
An Amiable Charlatan (1916) 30 exemplars
The Box with Broken Seals (1919) 27 exemplars
The Lost Ambassadore (1910) 26 exemplars
Mysterious Mr. Sabin (1899) 26 exemplars
The Avenger (1908) 26 exemplars
Anna The Adventuress (1904) 26 exemplars
The Yellow Crayon (1903) 26 exemplars
The Man From Sing Sing (1932) 24 exemplars
Envoy Extraordinary (1937) 24 exemplars
The Lighted Way (1912) 23 exemplars
Matorni's Vineyard (1928) 23 exemplars
The Betrayal (1904) 23 exemplars
The Traitors (1920) 22 exemplars
The Million Pound Deposit (1929) 22 exemplars
The Lion and the Lamb (1930) 22 exemplars
Havoc (1911) 22 exemplars
A Lost Leader (1906) 21 exemplars
Sir Adam Disappeared (1939) 21 exemplars
The Master Mummer (1905) 21 exemplars
Murder at Monte Carlo (1933) 21 exemplars
The Gallows of Chance (1934) 20 exemplars
The Inevitable Millionaires (1925) 20 exemplars
Ask Miss Mott (1935) 19 exemplars
Jacob's Ladder (2011) 19 exemplars
The Man Without Nerves (1934) 19 exemplars
A Millionaire of Yesterday (1900) 19 exemplars
Nobody's Man (1921) 19 exemplars
A Maker of History (2010) 19 exemplars
Prodigals of Monte Carlo (1926) 19 exemplars
The Glenlitten murder (2017) 18 exemplars
The Profiteers (2006) 18 exemplars
The Black Box (2008) 18 exemplars
Harvey Garrard's Crime (1926) 18 exemplars
The Grassleyes Mystery (1940) 18 exemplars
The Missioner (1907) 18 exemplars
Up the Ladder of Gold (1676) 18 exemplars
Jeanne of the Marshes (1908) 18 exemplars
General Besserley's Puzzle Box (1935) 17 exemplars
The Illustrious Prince (1894) 17 exemplars
Michael's Evil Deeds (1923) 17 exemplars
The Ex-Duke (1927) 17 exemplars
The Dumb Gods Speak (1937) 17 exemplars
The Governors (1911) 17 exemplars
Mr. Marx's Secret (2012) 17 exemplars
The Wrath to Come (1924) 16 exemplars
The Light Beyond (1928) 16 exemplars
The Yellow House (1908) 16 exemplars
The Pawns Count (1899) 16 exemplars
Last Train Out (1940) 16 exemplars
The Hillman (1917) 16 exemplars
The Mischief Maker (1913) 15 exemplars
The Spymaster (1940) 15 exemplars
The Passionate Quest (1924) 15 exemplars
A People's Man (1914) 15 exemplars
Stolen Idols (1925) 15 exemplars
The Ex-Detective (1977) 15 exemplars
Simple Peter Cradd (1931) 15 exemplars
The Way of These Women (1915) 15 exemplars
The New Tenant (1896) 15 exemplars
The Magnificent Hoax (1936) 15 exemplars
The Survivor (2007) 14 exemplars
The Tempting of Tavernake (1913) 14 exemplars
The Ostrekoff Jewels (1932) 14 exemplars
A Monk of Cruta (2008) 14 exemplars
The Moving Finger (2011) 14 exemplars
The Colossus of Arcadia (1938) 14 exemplars
The Mystery Road (1923) 13 exemplars
Floating Peril (1936) 13 exemplars
The Seven Conundrums (1977) 13 exemplars
The Strangers' Gate (1939) 12 exemplars
Miss Brown of X.Y.O. (1927) 12 exemplars
The Battle of Basinghall Street (1935) 12 exemplars
Exit a Dictator (1939) 12 exemplars
Gabriel Samara Peacemaker (1925) 11 exemplars
Crooks in the Sunshine (1932) 11 exemplars
Nicholas Goade, detective (1929) 11 exemplars
The Mayor on Horseback (1937) 11 exemplars
Berenice (1911) 10 exemplars
Advice Ltd. (1936) 10 exemplars
The Long Arm of Mannister (1908) 10 exemplars
The Golden Web (1911) 10 exemplars
The Man and His Kingdom (1917) 9 exemplars
The Shy Plutocrat (1941) 9 exemplars
The World's Great Snare (2012) 9 exemplars
A Daughter of Astrea (2016) 9 exemplars
The Channay Syndicate (1927) 8 exemplars
The Peer and the Woman (1892) 8 exemplars
Gangster's Glory (1900) 8 exemplars
Slane's Long Shots (2018) 8 exemplars
What Happened to Forester (1929) 8 exemplars
The Amazing Judgment (2010) 8 exemplars
Passers By (2015) 7 exemplars
Mysteries of the Riviera (1926) 7 exemplars
False Evidence (2012) 7 exemplars
The Fortunate Wayfarer (1928) 7 exemplars
The Kingdom of Earth (2015) 7 exemplars
Expiation (2015) 6 exemplars
A Pulpit in the Grill Room (1938) 6 exemplars
Mr. Mirakel (1943) 6 exemplars
The pool of memory, (1942) 6 exemplars
Aaron Rodd, Diviner (2017) 6 exemplars
The Amazing Partnership (1914) 6 exemplars
Sinners Beware (1932) 6 exemplars
Ghosts of Society (2015) 5 exemplars
For the Queen (2018) 5 exemplars
Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat (2017) 5 exemplars
Chronicles of Melhampton (1928) 5 exemplars
A Modern Prometheus (1897) 5 exemplars
The Man who changed his Plea (1942) 5 exemplars
The Milan grill room (2018) 5 exemplars
The Court of St Simon (2015) 4 exemplars
And Still I Cheat the Gallows (1939) 4 exemplars
Enoch Strone (2017) 4 exemplars
A sleeping memory (2011) 3 exemplars
Jennerton and Co. (2014) 3 exemplars
Who Travels Alone 2 exemplars
The Cafe of Terror (2010) 2 exemplars
Master of Men (2012) 2 exemplars
Those Other Days (2018) 2 exemplars
One Shall Be Taken 1 exemplars
A Royal Dilemma 1 exemplars
One of the Gods 1 exemplars
One Must Suffer 1 exemplars
Mr. Senn's Past 1 exemplars
Men Are Such Fools 1 exemplars
Una Vida en venta 1 exemplars
O gato escarlate 1 exemplars
The Distributors 1 exemplars
Vakoojan salaisuus 1 exemplars
The New Tenant 1 exemplars
Gullfuglen 1 exemplars
Hemliga papper 1 exemplars
Collected Articles 1 exemplars
The Happy Ending 1 exemplars
The Tower Ghost 1 exemplars
The Laughing Loser 1 exemplars
The Tragedy of a Week (2018) 1 exemplars
One Little Thread of Life (2018) 1 exemplars
A Lawyer's Romance 1 exemplars
Curate and Fiend 1 exemplars
The Deliberate Detective (2018) 1 exemplars
Michael's Evil Deeds (2008) 1 exemplars
To Win the Love He Sought (2018) 1 exemplars
Madame 1 exemplars
Recalled by the Double-Four (2018) 1 exemplars
Many mysteries 1 exemplars
The Human Chase (2018) 1 exemplars
In the Strongroom 1 exemplars
The Imperfect Crime 1 exemplars
First of the Fools 1 exemplars
Going, Going, Gone 1 exemplars
A Drama in Cameo 1 exemplars
The Dean's Daughter 1 exemplars
Peter Ruff (2018) 1 exemplars
Blackman's Wood 1 exemplars
The Two Spinsters 1 exemplars
Wild Man's Logic 1 exemplars
With a Dash 1 exemplars

Obres associades

The Spy's Bedside Book (1957) — Col·laborador — 343 exemplars
More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Cosmopolitan Crimes (1971) — Col·laborador — 171 exemplars
Continental Crimes (2017) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
Great Spy Stories From Fiction (1969) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions73 exemplars
Five Spy Novels (1962) — Col·laborador — 55 exemplars
Cloak and Dagger: A Treasury of 35 Great Espionage Stories (1988) — Col·laborador — 43 exemplars
A Century of Detective Stories (1935) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
The Second Century of Detective Stories (1938) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
My Best Detective Story (1931) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Mysterious, Menacing and Macabre (1981) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Best Detective Stories of the Year: 1928 (1929) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
My Best Thriller (1947) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Best Detective Stories, Second Series — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Murder Mixture: An Anthology of Crime Stories — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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A cute mystery. There are a lot of quirky people. A bit slow at times. David and Jane quickly fall in love. I liked the twist at the end.
 
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nx74defiant | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Oct 13, 2023 |
Decent Golden Age mystery but not as compelling as Oppenheim's The Great Impersonation. I found the protagonist a bit dense at times but believable.

Also I was annoyed by the fact that this Kindle edition had transcription errors - not a huge number but still a noticeable amount.
 
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leslie.98 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jun 27, 2023 |
Really didn't think I was enjoying it that much until near the end when the main character's motivation becomes clear. Until then, she just seemed odd, and cold, really.
Wilhelmina is the mistress of an estate and has a whole town full of people that depend on her and take her word as law. When Victor Macheson, a young man chock full of ideals and theories about how to make the world a better place, petitions her for the use of a barn where he can speak on these subjects, she refuses. Her people are moral, they are prosperous, they are satisfied. Why do they need to be preached to? So she argues.
But Macheson will not take rejection so easily. He hangs around the area longer than Wilhelmina wants him to; in fact, just long enough for her to develop a new kind of fascination with him. But why is she so incomprehensible, so affectionate and then so distant? And will Macheson's ideals and high thinking stand the test of such treatment by her?
Like I said, I was on the fence about the whole thing until right near the end, where the pieces fell into place.
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
A new series from the British Library which I had not come across before, to add to the beloved British Library Crime Classics, ie the British Library Spy Classics.

Unlike the Crime Classics series, where many of the authors are familiar to me, even if the books themselves are not, I had never heard of E. Phillips Oppenheim, though the back cover blurb describes him as:

'one of the most popular and successful writers of spy fiction in the early twentieth century, and was known in his time as the Prince of Storytellers.'

Some research suggests he was:

- author of more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943, 'featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action';
- was on the cover of Time magazine in 1927;
- 'notably easy to read'.

Fawley is the main character; a citizen of the US but who is looking for excitement (and something to do) when the USA decides between WWI and WWII to disband its secret service agencies, who ends up working (or is he) for Italy which is looking to tie up something nefarious with Germany.

Almost from the beginning, he is involved with a botched assassination, a beautiful woman, a need to travel to the casinos or Monte Carlo, cocktail parties, dangerous undercover investigations as to a secret weapon amongst other events.

Of course, the US and English authorities get involved again (most of whom Fawley is on a first name basis with), and a terrible outcome, affecting the entire world, is averted, largely down to Fawley.

Sound familiar? Yes Oppenheim's books are credited as being a inspiration to Ian Fleming's later James Bond books.

But to be assured that this example is of an earlier era than James Bond, one need only consider:

- the front cover;
- this quote, which has Frawley describing himself early on in the novel (p4): 'I am admittedly a free lance. I must have work of an adventurous type, and since my country cannot offer it to me I must seek for it in any decent way.'

To my way of thinking, this is probably not a strong example to start my foray with this series, but interesting in itself. Would I read a thousand of similar quality, probably not. But as I say, interesting in itself. But if you are not interested in dated early crime/spy novels, I suspect this is not for you other than to try something different/historical.

I will keep an eye for for more in the series.

Big Ship

27 May 2022
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bigship | Hi ha 4 ressenyes més | May 27, 2022 |

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Obres
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17
Membres
3,013
Popularitat
#8,473
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
58
ISBN
886
Llengües
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Preferit
3
Pedres de toc
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