Phillips Oppenheim: 335 books

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British author who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. He styled himself as the “prince of storytellers,” and is credited with creating the ‘rogue male’ genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction.

E. Phillips Oppenheim (b. 1866, d. 1946) was a British author who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. He styled himself as the ''prince of storytellers,'' and is credited with creating the 'rogue male' genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction.

A very interesting and early novel is extremely popular in the 1920s and 1940s by the famous author E. Phillips Oppenheim. It differs from its later works, here are considered more gloomy themes and a tragic plot. This story tells of a wealthy Englishman who fell in love with the daughter of an Italian...

This early (1896) novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim starts out at a gold mining camp in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 500 miles from San Francisco. Bryan Bryan is an Englishman who has come to America, chasing an evil man named Huntley who may have papers which explain Bryan's mysterious origins. In San...

E. Phillips Oppenheim was a British author who wrote nearly 150 novels during his career. He styled himself as the “prince of storytellers,” and is credited with creating the ‘rogue male’ genre of adventure thrillers and was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction.

E. Phillips Oppenheim, writing as Anthony Partridge, in 1912. A curious tale in three parts. The aristocratic Monsieur Simon with his consort Josephine, lives in the demi-monde of Paris, consorts with criminals and artists, and exacts "contributions" from various evil-doers in the "Court...

Annabel Pellissier, for reasons of her own, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a coquette. Endless complications ensue when both sisters...

"The Double Traitor" is one of the greatest First World War spy novels. In the thrilling plot the main focus remains on the European political intrigues. E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was an internationally renowned author of mystery and espionage thrillers. His novels and short stories...

The story of a young man, Lord Sandbrook, who takes revenge against the directors of a company he holds responsible for the deaths of his father and mother. The battlefield is Basinghall Street, where the offices of Woolito, Limited, are situated. A textile business is the center of strange machinations...

When Lord Wolfenden saw, in the supper-room of the Milan Restaurant, a beautiful woman and became acquainted with her by saving the life of her elderly companion, the mysterious Mr. Sabin, as they leave the restaurant, he little knew the web of intrigue into which he was entering. Twists and turns...

„The Black Box” is a series of loosely connected short stories detailing the adventures of Sanford Quest, world’s greatest criminologist. The story starts off in New York City, travels to England, Egypt, and around the world to San Francisco, then into the wild west of New Mexico. There are...

A World War I tale of espionage in a fictional „backwater” area in England with no apparent military value called Dreymarsh. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from a German zeppelin along with a Homburg hat near Dreymarsh. This discovery triggers a range...

„The Box with Broken Seals” is a thrilling cat and mouse murder mystery following the narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. This skillfully written and an exciting espionage story of intrigue, unfolding in the Oppenheim’s best style. The reader will follow with avidity the daring...

Moran Chambers is sentenced to 10 years in Sing Sing Prison for financial crimes. He is found guilty because of the testimony of his one-time partner Reuben Argels. As he is leaving the courtroom, Chambers smiles at Argels. Haunted by the feeling that Chambers will exact revenge, Argels flees on the...