E Phillips Oppenheim: 299 books

Mr Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula for a lethal gas explosive....

Detective Inspector John Dickins seated himself in silence. It was not the first of such conferences to which he had been summoned, but this time everyone knew that the situation was critical. He remained silent, waiting for his Chief to continue.

Ronald, Count Matsertser, was a world traveler and amateur. After several years of travel, he returns to his Norfolian estates, which deals with hunting, research and espionage in Africa and Asia. His treasures are huge, but his heart is empty. One night, a mysterious mercenary attacks him directly behind the gate of his estate.

This novel was originally published under the title A Daughter of the Marionis and was reprinted several times. The story of a vendetta, makes a capital plot for the novelist who takes characters from Southern life for his story, and in Margharita, “a daughter of the Marionis,” we have a not impossible...

A beautiful story involving a wealthy Englishman who falls in love with the daughter of an Italian nobleman who lives on the island of Cruta in the Mediterranean. Their progeny, and a very dark influence of the Catholic church, conspire to defeat both love and happiness...

Roger Sloane is a young American living on the Cote d'Azur during the late 1920's. He meets an old classmate who is wandering Europe after inheriting a title in England. Together the two friends, along with a disparate group of upper class diletantes combat the sinister forces of a gang of American...

Light, funny and enjoyable read. Narrated with a good rhytm, pleasant personages. The story is curious and sweet, modernly fast-paced and very Victorian in its spirit. Apparent fool meets genius thief with daughter and falls in love. Do not expect the usual outcome.

A story about an inventor turned politician and his love interests.

A mystery story that involves the revolution in Portugal.