E Phillips Oppenheim: 299 books

IT was a few minutes after one o'clock - the busiest hour of the day at the most popular bar in London. The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, green-carpeted room. Around the bar, would-be...

Peter Hames encounters a formidable adversary and inspects the most elaborate mantrap in the world.  

This is a story of intrigue, unfolding in the author's best style -- a thrilling narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. The reader will follow 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...

The story of a gallant soldier who is dismissed his regiment, and disowned by his father, because he has been found guilty, on "false evidence," of cowardice in the field. He changes his name, and later his son falls in love with the daughter of the man whose false evidence led to his ruin.

Excerpt: Wu Ling, the trader, Chinese representative of the great house of Johnson and Company, at home and amongst his merchandise, was strangely installed. He sat in the remote corner of a huge warehouse, packed from floor to ceiling with an amazingly heterogeneous collection of all manner...

Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin. He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester. One evening he meets a poor factory girl, Milly, who has been abandoned by her friends during a walk in the woods. On the same day he is accosted...

A classic Victorian romance novel.

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa early in his career. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. His is engaged to Lady Olive Nunnelly, and is the envy of all of society. Deane is threatened with ruin...

An espionage thriller in which the James Bond-like Martin Fawley, a retired major in the US army, takes on some independent information gathering work for the Italians in the mid 1930s. He travels to Rome, Paris, Berlin, and London, collecting useful knowledge in the name of world peace. He has been...

The young Lord St. Maurice is in Palermo, carefree and wealthy. One evening he sees the beautiful Italian singer Adrienne Cartuccio. He falls instantly in love and plots to meet her. Alas her cousin, the Count Leonardo di Marioni has loved her and pursued her for many years, but she will not marry...

The Adventures of Mr. Stanely Brooke, The Deliberate Detective. Includes the following stories: The Rescue of Warren Tyrrwell, The Princess Pays, The Other Side of the Wall, The Murder William Blessing, The Disappearance of Monsieur Dupoy, The Spider’s Parlor, The Silent People, and The Glen Terrace Tragedy.