The Great Secret

by E. Phillips Oppenheim

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E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), an English novelist, was the self-styled "prince of storytellers." He composed some 150 novels, mainly suspense and international intrigue. He was the earliest writer of modern spy fiction and invented the "Rogue Male" school of adventure thrillers.

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1908. An excellent spy thriller. Very British. J. Hardross Courage, Esquire, helps thwart a complicated German plot to sink the British Navy and gets the girl. Never a dull moment in this page turner.

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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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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PZ3 .O62Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction in English
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