"Accept no
invitations,
go nowhere
without
letting me
know, give
up your
apartment
and live at
your club.
Meredith has
offered a
reward of
5,000 for
your
abduction."
This was the
message
received by
Miss Lucie
Mott, who
conducted a
"Beatrice
Fairfax"
column for
the London
Daily.
It was Miss
Mott's
avocation,
the
operating of
a private
inquiry
bureau,
which had
landed her
head over
heels in the
middle of
trouble.
One evening,
alone at her
desk, the
door opened
slightly, a
hand reached
in far
enough to
turn off the
light, and
the odor of
violets
filled the
office, as a
shadowy,
masked
figure
entered.
This was her
introduction
to Violet
Joe, much
wanted but
elusive
member of
London's
underworld.
From that
time on she
seemed fated
to interfere
willingly or
unwillingly
with the
operations
of Joe's
gang.
Her real
perils,
however,
started when
she caught
the fancy of
Meredith,
Scotland
Yard's
greatest
enemy.
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Battle of
Basinghall
Street, The
The
arch-villain
sat in the
office of
the chairman
of Woolito,
Ltd., wool
manufacturers
on
Basinghall
Street.
Seven minor
villains
from time to
time
occupied the
chairs
around the
director's
table.
"Ruthless
competition
and let the
strong man
win" might
well have
been
engraved on
the wall of
that room.
The Earl of
Sandbrook
had gone
from it to
his death, a
broken man.
He left a
son.
There are
chinks in
the finest
armor.
Young
Sandbrook
set out to
find those
in the armor
of the
eight.
One -- two
-- three --
four --,
shadows rise
out of the
past to
humiliate
Bomford, to
ruin
Mayden-Harte,
to wreck
Moody, to
imprison
Littleburn.
And
Sandbrook is
not yet
satisfied.
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Broken
Seals, The
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This is a
story of
intrigue,
unfolding in
the author's
best style
in a
thrilling
narrative of
Jocelyn Thew
and the
British
Secret
Service.
The reader
follows with
avidity the
daring moves
of Thew from
the time he
sails from
New York on
the "City of
Boston,"
accompanied
by a dying
man and a
special
nurse in the
person of
Katharine
Beverley, a
society girl
who is under
obligations
to Thew.
The eventual
trip across
the Atlantic
and the
attempts of
an agent to
outwit his
enemies in
England
leads to the
climax which
will
surprise
even the
inveterate
Oppenheim
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Philip
Romilly, and
indigent
London art
teacher and
would-be
playwright,
is tacitly
engaged to
marry
Beatrice
Wenderly,
who is as
poor as
himself.
The outlook
is so
hopeless
that
Beatrice
decides to
accept
Philip's
rich cousin,
Douglas
Romilly.
Philip
creates a
scene and
then
disappears,
sailing for
America as
Douglas
Romilly.
On the
steamer he
meets
Elizabeth
Dalstan, an
American
actress, who
saw two men
go under a
canal bridge
on the
eventful day
when Philip
decided to
impersonate
his cousin.
Only one man
was seen to
emerge, and
Elizabeth
recognizes
her fellow
passenger,
Douglas
Romilly, as
the one.
What happens
when Philip
reaches New
York, how he
is
befriended
by
Elizabeth,
his varied
experiences
with the
many phases
of
metropolitan
life, all
conspire to
thrill and
excite the
reader until
the final
solution of
the mystery
is solved.
The action
of the story
is rapid and
the New York
background
and
characters
are as
realistic as
his English.
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How war
between two
European
powers was
narrowly
circumvented
is the theme
of the
latest novel
by this
unsurpassed
exponent of
international
intrigue.
The scene is
the French
Riviera; the
hero,
Rudolph, a
likeable
young man
whose stay
in Monte
Carlo almost
precipitated
a clash of
arms; the
heroine,
Joan
Haskell, a
charming
American
girl who
unwittingly
finds
herself in
the midst of
a drama that
threatens to
end in a
world war.
Mr.
Oppenheim is
at his best
when he is
depicting
life at
Monte Carlo.
In this
little world
of wealth
and
nobility, he
tells of
Lucullan
banquets,
sports by
day, and
nights of
music and
dancing.
There are
the thrills
of secret
dictatorship,
threatened
revolt of
the Reds, a
spy that is
a typical
Oppenheim
creation,
sudden
deaths, and
first-rate
love
interest.
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Devil's Paw,
The
This is a
clever
story.
The plot is
based on a
conspiracy
to draw the
labor
leaders of
England into
illegal
peace
negotiations
with the
enemy,
negotiations
which would
result in
chaos for
their
country.
One of the
leading
characters
is the
daughter of
an English
Colonel,
known as
Miss
Katherine
Abbeway,
although she
inherits
from her
Russian
mother the
title of
"Countess."
She is
entrusted by
the secret
arbitrators
with a most
important
mission and
has the
temporary
custody of a
valuable
document.
She is
suspected by
the police
of being a
spy, and
only saves
herself from
death by
giving the
papers into
the keeping
of young
Orden, the
son of her
hostess,
whose
interest and
admiration
she has
always
aroused.
Once saved,
Miss Abbeway
betrays most
feminine
inconsistency
by being
furious with
Orden for
not
returning to
her the
treasonable
documents.
His very
reasonable
obstinacy
leads to
various
complications
and runs him
into serious
danger.
Secret
agents
naturally
play an
important
part in the
story.
The
Oppenheim
interest
runs through
the story
and the
reader keeps
turning the
pages
eagerly as
the plot
develops.
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Traitor, The
Mr.
Oppenheim
has written
in the past
many stories
involving
the attitude
of Germany
towards
England, but
never before
has he so
realistically
exposed the
ramifications
of the
German spy
system.
His hero is
Francis
Norgate,
detached
from the
British
Embassy at
Berlin
because he
incurred the
displeasure
of the
Kaiser ...
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"The romance
of secret
diplomacy
has
enthralled
me for
years, I
have tried
to reason
out the
desires and
ambitions of
various
nations .. I
have had no
particular
advance
knowledge of
world
affairs, I
have
reasoned for
myself,
'This nation
is aiming
toward this'
and 'That
nation is
aiming
toward
that'."
-- E.
Phillips
Oppenheim
... Prior
knowledge or
none, in
"The
Mysterious
Mr. Sabin"
he
anticipated
the Boer War
by seven
years; in
"The
Mischief
Maker" and
"The Great
Secret" he
foretold the
Great War;
in "Miss
Brown of
X.Y.O." he
was ahead of
the British
Secret
Service in
breaking off
relations
with Russia.
In this new
story Mr.
Oppenheim
presents two
ideas that
might iron
out all of
the wrinkles
in the brows
of European
statesmen.
Moreover, it
is one of
his most
interesting
and exciting
stories.
A mantle of
mystery
wraps itself
around the
reader in
the first
paragraphs
which is
sustained
almost to
the graphic
final scene.
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Ex-Detective,
The
In a series
of connected
episodes Mr.
Oppenheim
recounts the
astonishing
adventures
which befall
Malcolm
Gossett
almost
immediately
after he
resigns from
Scotland
Yard.
Irritated at
the
limitations
and methods
imposed on
him by his
superiors at
the Yard and
having a
keen
sympathy for
those
unfortunate
accused of
crime and
inadequately
defended,
Gossett sets
up as a
private
investigator.
his unusual
intelligence
and
intuition
bring him
success in
all sorts of
commissions
which come
his way:
in solving
mysterious
disappearances,
murders and
robberies,
in tracking
down false
evidence, in
straightening
out
international
tangles and
problems.
His methods
are a
combination
of shrewd
observation
and
inductive
reasoning,
backed by
his Scotland
Yard
training and
a wide
knowledge of
the criminal
mind.
The result
is a series
of thrilling
exploits.
Malcolm
Gossett is a
newcomer in
a field of
super-detectives
and it is to
be hoped
that his
creator will
invent more
difficulties
for him to
solve.
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Wayfarer,
The
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In this
thrilling
tale of
international
intrigue --
a theme
which has
provided Mr.
Oppenheim
with
material for
many of his
most popular
novels -- a
conference
between the
Great Powers
is being
held in
London.
The
questions to
be settled
are ware
debts and
the
rehabilitation
of Germany,
a country
which Felix
Dukane, one
of the
world's
richest men,
is willing
to finance.
His
daughter,
Estelle, as
calculating
as her
father, has
fascinated
both Mark
Van Stratton
a member of
the American
Embassy, and
Lord
Dorchester,
an
Englishman
in politics.
A famous
international
spy
possesses
secret
information
concerning
Germany,
which he is
willing to
impart for
suitable
inducement.
If this
information
reaches the
conference,
Dukane's
proposal
will be
disregarded.
The story
deals with
the spy's
offer to
Dukane, the
latter's
refusal, and
then his
endeavor to
prevent the
attempts of
the Marquis
de Fontanay,
an old
war-time
friend of
Van Stratton
and
Dorchester,
to secure it
for France;
and with the
endeavors of
both men and
Estelle to
sway the
American to
their own
ends.
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Gabriel
Samara,
Peacemaker
Once again
Mr.
Oppenheim
projects his
story into
the future
and unfolds,
in his
inimitable
manner,
happenings
of a
momentous
character.
The opening
events take
place in New
York, where
Gabriel
Samara, the
conqueror of
Bolshevism
and the
virtual head
of the new
Russian
Republic,
engages as
his
secretary
Catherine
Borans, one
of the New
York group
of Russian
refugees who
are awaiting
the day when
Russia shall
once more
become a
monarchy.
The scenes
shift to
Monte Carlo,
London and
Moscow as
the
principal
characters
return to
their native
land.
The
attractive
and
accomplished
Catherine
proves to be
a Russian
Princess,
who must
choose
between
Prince
Nicholas
Imanoff,
heir to the
Russian
throne, and
the
peace-loving,
strong man
of the
people,
Gabriel
Samara.
Samara is
bound to
carry out
his
self-chosen
task of
making
Russia a
great
republic,
but he is
caught by
Catherine's
charm.
Nicholas, in
turn, loses
no time in
advancing
his own
interests
with the
Royalists,
and in
claiming
Catherine's
help.
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Gallows of
Chance, The
A Cabinet
Minister
starts by
car for
London after
a day's
shooting in
Norfolk.
He reaches
home after
an
experience
that might
well haunt
his dreams
for the rest
of his life.
A lady steps
into a taxi
to keep a
dinner
engagement
-- and never
arrives at
her
destination.
A gentleman
sits
peacefully
in his
library --
the curtain
flaps at an
open window
-- the room
is empty!
A murderer
is hung at
Wandsworth
Goal.
Between
these four
incidents
there is a
connection
so subtle
that
Scotland
Yard can
make no
headway in
solving the
riddle --
until
Detective
Pank decides
to quit the
service.
An
atmosphere
of icy
fascination
grips the
reader at
the very
start of
"The Gallows
of Chance."
As the story
progresses,
the figure
of the
beautiful
Katherine
Brandt
stands out
in sharp
relief as
she moves
triumphantly
through the
coils of
intrigue.
Here is Mr.
Oppenheim at
his
unbeatable
best.
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Glenlitten
Murder, The
When
DeBesset was
shot dead in
the bedroom
of Felice,
the
Russian-born
Marchioness
of
Glenlitten
and the
famous
necklace had
disappeared,
it was taken
for granted
that the
Frenchman
had come to
Lady
Glenlitten's
aid and had
been
murdered by
the burglar.
But the
latter, when
caught,
disclaimed
possession
of the
necklace and
swore he had
not carried
a gun, and
there were
reasons for
believing
him.
There were
also reasons
for thinking
that Felice
knew much
more about
the affair
than she
would
acknowledge.
There
certainly
was some
mystery
about her,
apparent
even to her
adoring
husband, and
it is to the
unraveling
of that
mystery and
to the
detection of
the murderer
that Mr.
Oppenheim
has brought
all his
resources.
Who killed
DeBesset and
who stole
the
necklace?
What did
Felice fear
and how much
of the real
truth did
her husband
know or
suspect?
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A
gamekeeper's
daughter
cursed
Israel,
Baron
Honerton,
her lover's
father, who
still clung
to the old
Mosaic law
-- "an eye
for an eye"
- and
because of
this belief
had used his
mighty
influence to
have the
keeper
hanged,
although the
latter had
merely
intended to
flog the
young man
for
philandering.
Years pass,
and when
three of
Israel's
descendants
disappear in
a manner
that baffles
all the
cleverness
of the
police and
of Scotland
Yard, it
seems to
others of
the Honerton
family a
veritable
working out
of that
ancient
curse.
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Mystery, The
When David
Granet,
young
English
scientist,
called on
Lady
Grassleyes
at her
remote
Manoir, he
found her
sitting
quietly in
her salon.
She was, it
seemed,
quite dead.
Why did her
lovely niece
beg Granet
to stay on?
Somehow the
word murder
seemed to
hang in the
summer air.
The Marquis
de Fallanges,
light-fingered
nobleman,
and Mr.
Leonidas,
film
magnate,
move in.
M. Suresne
of the
French
Secret
Police takes
to painting
water colors
nearby!
Then the
body of the
late Lady
Grassleyes
takes French
leave -- but
with Mr.
Oppenheim at
the helm,
even murder
becomes
well-bread,
and dark
deeds
lighter.
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Great
Impersonation,
The
Leaving
England
under
suspicion as
a murderer,
Sir Everard
Dominey,
after ten
years of
wandering,
turns up in
German East
Africa and
is rescued
from death
in the
jungle by
the German
Commandant,
Baron von
Ragastein, a
former
fellow
student at
Oxford.
Realizing
that the
remarkable
resemblance
which
existed
between them
during
college days
still
persists,
von
Ragastein,
who has been
ordered to
London by
the
Wilhelmstrasse,
decides to
send Dominey
to certain
death in the
jungle,
assume his
identity,
and enter
London in
the guise of
Sir Everard
Dominey.
Then follows
a love story
of charm and
appeal, a
revelation
of the
German
espionage
system that
thrills and
amazes, and
a mystery
that the
reader will
not solve
until the
end of the
story.
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Shan, The
This is a
gripping
story of
plots,
intrigues
and romance.
The author
here carries
us forward
to the year
1934;
England is
socially
overturned,
Germany has
kept on
hating and
waiting, and
at the time
of our story
she seems to
have a
well-assured
arrangement
with Russia
and China
for the
humiliation
of the
enemy,
Britain.
China has
become the
dominant
East and the
Great Prince
Shan is her
Lord.
In the hands
of Shan rest
the
destinies of
the European
West.
America is
still an
onlooker.
upon the
scene thus
set with
menace, Mr.
Oppenheim
arrays his
company of
diplomats,
special
agents,
pretty
women,
including an
adventuress
or two.
he stages
mysterious
conferences
and an
occasional
assassination.
The Great
Prince
arrives in
London by
airplane
from China.
He is the
dominant
figure in
the Orient
and in his
hands rests
the decision
whether or
not China
shall sign
the compact
with the
German
plotters.
A story of
adventurous
intrigue in
international
politics.
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Havoc
The opening
chapter
tells of a
secret
meeting of
great
crowned
heads of
Europe
aiming at
the invasion
of England,
and the
efforts of
the Austrian
secret
service to
regain
important
papers
relating to
the project
are the
motif of as
enthralling
a story as
could be
desired.
It is a tale
full of
complications,
surprises,
and exciting
incidents,
in which
English
brains are
pitted
against
Austrian
craftiness,
with a
beautiful
opera singer
playing an
important
part in
events.
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Family
tradition
and a desire
for clean
living in
the open air
cause John
Strangeway
"the
Hillman" to
dwell in the
mountains of
Cumberland,
remote from
the life of
the great
modern
cities.
An accident
brings
Louise
Manrel, a
London
actress, to
his gate,
and despite
his
brother's
protests,
born of
suspicion of
all women,
Strangeway
offers the
travellers
refuge.
On the
morrow the
actress
departs,
leaving her
benefactor
in a state
of mind that
completely
disorganizes
his ideals
and his
life, and
sends him to
London in
search of
her.
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Millionaires,
The
The scene of
the story is
laid in
London.
George Henry
Underwood
and Stephen
Underwood,
on nearing
the
half-century
mark, find
themselves
possessed of
simple
tastes and
ample
incomes.
Upon them
falls an
injunction
from the
deceased
father, held
in reserve
for this
occasion, to
learn the
art of
spending,
and not
allow their
wealth to
accumulate.
It seems
that they
cannot lose
money by any
legitimate
means.
They are
forbidden to
gamble, or
play the
races, and
must avoid
the Stock
Exchange.
The backed a
musical
comedy; it
was the best
of the
season.
The endowed
a golf
course, and
it became
the most
popular
proposition
near London.
Everything
they
invested in
seemed to
increase
their
wealth.
Read this
interesting
story to
learn how
they were
successful
in complying
with the
bequest.
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Jeremiah and
the Princess
finds
Oppenheim in
a gloriously
romantic
vein.
it is a tale
of Zenda or
Graustark
brought up
to the
minute and
told as only
the "king of
story-tellers"
can tell of
princesses,
of romantic
young
Americans,
of European
plotters, of
millions and
of love ...
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the Blind
This story
of Mr.
Oppenheim's
might be
called the
inside story
of one of
the supreme
though
secret
struggles of
the war, the
fight of the
British War
Office
against the
German
Secret
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Leopold
Benjamin,
the Viennese
philanthropist,
owner of one
of the great
art
collections
of the
world,
learns that
because of
his race he
is about to
be clapped
in a
Concentration
camp.
He flees,
and when the
authorities
arrive at
his palatial
home, they
find that
his art
collection,
too, has
disappeared!
How Charles
Mildenhall,
formerly of
the British
Embassy,
Benjamin's
charming
secretary,
Miss Grey,
and his
confidential
man of
affairs, Mr.
Blute, work
out a ruse
to outwit
the Nazis
and whisk
the art
treasures
over the
border by
the last
train out
before
invasion --
such is the
main thread
of the
story.
The only
hitch in the
ruse is the
notorious
Baroness von
Ballinstrode
..
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Light
Beyond, The
A new tale
of
international
intrigue in
which Mark
Van
Stratton,
son of one
of America's
greatest
bankers,
becomes
entangled in
a series of
complicated
events which
concern the
settlement
of the war
debts and
the
rehabilitation
of Germany.
Third
richest man
in the
world, Felix
Dukane is
ready to
finance the
proposition.
Estelle
Dukane, the
daughter, is
as coldly
calculating
as he is and
has
fascinated
both Van
Stratton and
Lord
Dorchester,
an English
friend of
Stratton's
who is also
interested
in politics.
The story
deals with
Dukane's
efforts to
keep certain
revelations
and
information
concerning
Germany from
reaching the
conference
or falling
into the
hands of
France.
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Lighted Way,
The
Arnold
Chetwode, a
young man
employed in
the office
of a
wholesale
provision
merchant, is
one night
invited by
his employer
to fill a
vacancy at a
dinner
party.
Doing so, he
quickly
scents
something
wrong, and
this feeling
is
intensified
when he
discovers a
villainous
looking man,
who wears a
peculiar
blood-red
signet ring,
peering into
a window.
Among the
guests are
Count
Sabatini --
his
employer's
brother-in-law
and an exile
from his
native land
for
political
offences --
and two
financiers
between whom
there is
evidently
ill feeling.
The next day
one of them
is stabbed
in the
vestibule of
a hotel, and
Chetwode, an
eyewitness,
sees the
same scarlet
ring on the
murderer's
finger
before the
latter
escapes.
Mystery upon
mystery
follows, for
the plot
concerns an
attempt to
bring about
a revolution
in Portugal;
and Chetwode
has many
exciting
adventures
in his
effort to
get at the
truth of
things.
And,
besides,
there is an
unusually
appealing
love
interest so
that "The
Lighted Way"
is about as
absorbing a
piece of
fiction as
ever kept a
reader
company into
the wee
small hours
of the
night.
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Lion and the
Lamb, The
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
An Oppenheim
hero never
does the
usual.
David
Newberry
joined a
band of
criminals,
the Lambs --
the gang of
Tottie Green
and of the
gorgeous
Belle
Morgan.
During the
theft of the
famous
diamond,
"The
Virgin's
Tear," David
is deserted
by his
cowardly
companions,
caught and
sent to
jail.
Owing to the
death of his
father he
emerges from
prison as
Lord
Newberry
with money
and estates,
but with a
bitter
hatred of
the Lambs
and a fixed
determination
to square
accounts
with them.
They, on
their side,
demand the
diamond
which they
claim David
stole.
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Lost
Ambassador,
The
"The Lost
Ambassador"
is a
straightforward
tale of
mystery, the
plot of
which hinges
on the sale
of two
magnificent
new
battleships
by an
emissary of
the
Brazilian
government.
In dramatic
power, an
intricacy of
plot -- most
of all in
its
swiftness of
incident --
it is as
good a story
as Mr.
Oppenheim
has ever
written.
The scene
shifts
rapidly from
Paris to
London
hotels, and
then to the
country, and
there is a
rascally
maitre d'
hotel who is
sure to
interest
you.
You cannot
afford to
skip a page
of this
book, for
the action
is
kinematographic
and you
would be
hopelessly
lost if you
turned over
a leaf by
mistake.
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Magnificent
Hoax, The
Why was Lady
Judith
Martellon
living in a
tenement
house and
patronizing
the saloon
bar of the
Green Man?
Just why was
Ordino's
exclusive
club so
popular?
What was
Ordino's
connection
with Lady
Judith and
Professor
Sir Gregory
Fawsitt?
Who was the
man in the
long, soiled
mackintosh,
the man with
the deep-set
evil eyes
and the
complexion
of a
vampire?
What is the
one
illegitimate
commodity in
the world
that makes
excellent
newspaper
copy, that
is hazardous
to those who
traffic in
it, that is
imperatively
sought after
by its
consumers?
When you've
guessed the
answer
you'll know
how the
sordid,
murky life
of London's
waterfront
and the
habitués of
the most
exclusive of
its West End
restaurants
are linked
together in
"The
Magnificent
Hoax."
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Man Without
Nerves, The
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
Mr. James
Huitt might
have posed
for a
portrait of
the perfect
type for his
position as
manager of
the Aldwych
Branch of
the great
banking
house of
Barton's.
Instinctively
you would
choose him
as just the
man to trust
with your
savings.
Even when
Sandywayes,
the suburb
where he
maintained
his bachelor
establishment,
was blasted
out of its
serenity,
first by a
suicide and
then by
murder.
mr. Huitt's
was the one
calm voice
in the
excited
community.
Even when it
grew more
and more
apparent
that danger
still lurked
in
Sandywayes,
Mr. Huitt
met the
situation
with a
composure
that , oddly
enough, was
shaken for
the first
time when,
as spectator
of the golf
club finals,
he watched a
long putt
roll true
across the
green into
the cup.
"The Man
Without
Nerves" is a
mystery
thriller
which may
arouse your
suspicions
early but
will
nevertheless
tease you
nearly to
the finish
before you
see the
solution.
Whoever
committed
the murders,
Oppenheim
himself has
murdered
sleep for
the person
who starts
this yarn.
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Master
Mummer, The
[Little
Brown
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Is
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Mayor on
Horseback,
The
[Little
Brown
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1st US]
Tid
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Only
Miss Brown
of XYO
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
The London
fog was
responsible
for the
arrival of
Miss Brown,
a modest
typist going
about her
business, at
Colonel
Dessiter's
door and for
her entrance
into a
colorful
world of
breathless
living.
Dessiter had
discovered
far-reaching
anarchist
plots and
had been
pursued
across two
continents.
Tonight, in
London, the
chase had
finished
with Colonel
Dessiter
wounded and
one man
dead.
From her
everyday
monotonous
life Miss
Brown
stepped into
this new and
terrifying
world when
she took
down the
Colonel's
story and
accepted his
trust to
keep these
notes from
falling into
hostile
hands.
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Mr. Grex of
Monte Carlo
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
In Monte
Carlo three
men skilled
in
international
intrigue
meet in
secret
conference;
two
ministers of
foreign
affairs and
a Grand Duke
plan to make
over the map
of Europe,
while a
diplomat
representing
a fourth
great world
power, aided
by skillful
secret
service men,
aims to
thwart their
endeavors.
Then --
enter the
American!
How young
Richard
Lane,
wealthy and
used to
having his
own way,
fell in love
with
mysterious
Mr. Grex's
daughter,
how he was
not
discouraged
even when he
found out
what an
important
personage
Mr. Grex
really was,
how he took
a hand in
events and
caused an
upset, is
told in a
thrilling
love story
that lays
bare the
methods of
modern
international
diplomatists
and
incidentally
conveys a
warning to
America to
arm herself
against the
possibility
of war.
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Only
Mystery
Road, The
Two young
Englishmen,
Christopher
Brent and
Gerald
Dombey,
motoring
through
France to
Monte Carlo,
to visit
with the
latter's
father and
sister,
Mary, run
across a
beautiful
French
peasant
girl,
Myrtle, who
successfully
solicits
their aid in
escaping
from a
detested
suitor.
They
constitute
themselves
her joint
guardians,
and provide
well for her
needs.
An
attractive,
mysterious
Russian girl
crosses
Dombey's
path, and he
becomes
infatuated
with her.
Just when he
makes her
acquaintance,
she
disappears
to parts
unknown.
The Dombeys,
Brent and
Myrtle (the
latter now
Mary's maid)
return to
England.
In London
Gerald
unexpectedly
meets the
Russian girl
and is so
persistent
in his suit
that she
tells him
she will
never wed
until her
cousin is
released
from a
Russian
prison, in
which he is
confined.
An exciting
story of
adventure
and romance.
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Nobody's Man
[Little
Brown
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Tid
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Ostrekoff
Jewels, The
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
Not for a
long time
has Mr.
Oppenheim
packed so
many thrills
into one
book or
given life
to so
fascinatingly
enigmatic a
character as
Anna
Kastellane.
After
countless
adventures
while
crossing the
Russian
frontier and
in Poland,
Anna and
Wilfred
Haven,
attaché of
the American
embassy and
custodian of
the
priceless
Ostrekoff
jewels, take
flight by
aeroplane
across
warring
Europe.
But, as
every one
who reads
Oppenheim
will
suspect, it
is no
ordinary
trip; in
fact, no
reader can
expect to
have a calm
moment or
breathe
normally
until the
journey has
come to its
extraordinary
end.
In
Oppenheim's
latest
thriller
those days
of terror --
those days
in 1917 that
shook Russia
and the
whole world
as well --
live again
with
startling
reality.
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Prince of
Sinners, The
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
Lord
Arronmore,
after living
many years
as a police
court
missionary,
had an
insane
reaction
that
impelled him
to a life of
sin, from
which he
eventually
found
salvation by
flight to a
far-off
land.
He had a son
known as
Kingston
Brooks, who,
on learning
of his
identity and
his father's
past, turned
bitterly
against him.
On this
theme, Mr.
E. Phillips
Oppenheim
has built up
an admirable
story.
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Prodigals of
Monte Carlo
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
After a
nasty toss
in the
hunting
field Sir
Hargrave
Wendever
consulted a
heart
specialist
who implied
that the
Baronet
might have
only six or
eight months
more to
live.
Asking three
of his
friends
hypothetically
what each
would do
under such
circumstances,
he was told
that one
would try to
execute a
spectacular
financial
coup,
another
would spend
the time in
continuous
pleasure at
Monte Carlo,
and a third
would
endeavor to
make happy
some people
who could
not be
reached by
ordinary
charity.
Sir Hargrave
vowed to do
all three.
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Only
Profiteers,
The
No living
author tells
a story in
more lively
fashion than
does
Oppenheim.
In this, his
later story,
he tells how
young
Wingate,
American
wizard of
finance,
fought the
profiteers
who were
trying to
corner the
world's
wheat
supply.
The theme is
of interest
to every
person in
America.
There is
romance,
love,
adventure
and
excitement,
with the
usual
international
intrigues
that one
expects in a
tale by
Oppenheim,
who never
seems to
want for
plots with
unique
angles and
exciting
issues.
You'll like
this novel
of
Oppenheim's.
The Master
Story-Teller.
He writes a
lot, but
every time
his stories
grow better
and better.
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Pulpit in
the Grill
Room, A
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
Louis,
maitre
d'hotel in
the Grill
Room of the
Milan Hotel
in London,
was wounded
in the war.
Crippled, he
could not
return to
his pre-war
job, so the
hotel owner
built for
him a small,
low pulpit
just inside
the
revolving
doors.
From this
easy chair
Louis could
see all the
customers
and watch
everything
that went on
and all
those who
came and
went.
Living in
the hotel
was Captain
Lyson, a
free-lance
newspaper
man.
Both he and
Louis were
amateur
detectives
and dabblers
in intrigue.
From his
pulpit in
the Grill
Room Louis
watched the
development
of the story
of the mad
film
actor-producer
and the
Scandinavian
actress, of
the
sensational
American
dancers and
the act that
ended in
tragedy; of
the
anti-anarchist
war chest.
These and
the rest of
the stories
are
connected by
the
reappearance
of some of
the same
characters
and have, in
most cases,
Captain
Lyson as the
hero.
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Spymaster,
The
[Little
Brown
-
1st US]
Time after
time, Mr.
Oppenheim
has written
stories of
international
intrigue
that have
been almost
uncanny in
their
prophecy.
It has been
hard at
times
entirely to
believe his
oft-repeated
assertion
that he has
no secret
sources of
information.
In this
instance
some of
those who
draw
parallels
between
current
history and
Mr.
Oppenheim's
stories will
be inclined
to wish that
Mr.
Oppenheim
held a
Cabinet
position of
importance.
The plot of
"The
Spymaster"
concerns the
attempt by
certain
powers to
make demands
on Great
Britain in
the belief
that she is
unprepared
to face the
consequences
of refusal,
and on the
efforts of
Admiral Guy
Cheshire,
Head of the
British
Naval
Intelligence,
to see that
false
information
about
Britain's
condition
shall reach
these
powers.
This is not
a war
without
women.
The
intriguing
Countess
Pelucchi,
her
beautiful
sister Elida,
and the
tempting
Rubenesque
Mrs.
Florestan
are
important
factors in
the plot.
The setting
is modern
London.
