Books with author Edward Phillips

"Quigsnip" is a tale of Dickens' Oliver Twist, that Dickens himself seemed too frightened to tell, of a plotline which he began, but never finished.... Oliver Twist, the brave orphan boy who defied the workhouse board has found his rich family, and is now well-nourished, and living among luxury. He imagines his former life as a half-starved workhouse waif in the clutches of the infamous Fagin gang is far behind him. But one villain remains at large. He is a villain with an unknown connection to Oliver’s past. A villain who controls the entire underworld of Victorian London. A villain who will stop at nothing until he has destroyed all that the boy loves, before putting Oliver in his grave…

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There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2—possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great terminus. The station-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector in attendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travelling ulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather dressing-case, across which was painted in black letters the name MR. JOHN P. DUNSTER, was standing a few yards away, smoking a long cigar, and, to all appearance absorbed in studying the advertisements which decorated the grimy wall on the other side of the single track.

A story of the diplomatic events leading up to the European War The Double Traitor deals with a man who becomes a spy by accident, a theme that would become enormously popular in British spy fiction. Francis Norgate is perhaps not quite an amateur spy though. He is a junior British diplomat, stationed in Berlin in 1914. His espionage career comes about as a result of two accidents.

This war thriller was published in the U. S. in 1918 (the English edition was published in 1919 under the title Mr Lessingham Goes Home). Since the Armistice was not declared until November 1918, we can deduce that Oppenheim wrote the novel while Britain was still embroiled in World War I. Germany was using the zeppelins of the title to bomb London, but as the book opens one of these dirigibles crashes in the English countryside. Its passenger, Baron Maderstrom, finds refuge in an English country house. He brings Lady Cranston news of her brother, a prisoner of war in Germany whose release he promises to secure. On the point of denouncing him as a spy, Lady Cranston is persuaded to harbor the Baron by her brother's fiance, Helen Fairclough, and to pass him off as an English houseguest going under the name of Hamar Lessingham. These three main characters are soon joined on stage by Phillipa Cranston's husband. Once a devoted spouse, Sir Richard Cranston is now regarded by his wife as a slacker who is not doing his part in the war effort. The heroine's ability to simultaneously despise her unpatriotic husband while concealing a German spy from the authorities who are searching for him is only one of many implausible plot contrivances the reader must swallow. Some of Oppenheim's thrillers are quite readable depictions of espionage activities, but The Zeppelin's Passenger is simply incredible. The last section of the book, should the reader persevere, jumps the shark even further. by CrimeQueen2