E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Born	Edward Phillips Oppenheim 22 October 1866 (1866-10-22) London, UK
Died	3 February 1946 (1946-02-04) (aged 79) St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
Pen name	Anthony Partridge
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Period	1887 to 1943
Genre	thriller romances

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.

Early life

Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born 22 October 1866 in Leicester, the son of Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather merchant. He worked in his father's business for almost twenty years. He went to Wyggeston Grammar School.

Career

Oppenheim's literary success enabled him to buy a villa in France and a yacht, then a house in Guernsey, though he lost access to this during the Second World War. Afterwards he regained the house, le Vanquiédor in St. Peter Port, and he died there on 3 February 1946.

Personal life

In 1892 Oppenheim married Elise Clara Hopkins. They lived in Evington, Leicestershire until the First World War, and had one daughter. During the war he worked for the Ministry of Information.

Further reading

• Autobiography, The Pool of Memory (1941) at Project Gutenberg Australia
• The sole biography of Oppenheim is Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim by Robert Standish, pseudonym of Digby George Gerahty. London: Peter Davies 1957.

Bibliography

Novels

Oppenheim produced more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943. They include:

• Expiation (1887)
• A Monk of Cruta (1894)
• The Peer and the Woman (1895)
• A Daughter of the Marionis (1895)
• False Evidence (1896)
• A Modern Prometheus (1896)
• The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1896)
• The Wooing of Fortune (1896)
• The Postmaster of Market Deighton (1897)
• The Amazing Judgment (1897)
• Mysterious Mr. Sabin (1898)
• A Daughter of Astrea (1898)
• As a Man Lives [aka The Yellow House] (1898)
• Mr. Marx's Secret (1899)
• The Man and His Kingdom (1899)
• The World's Great Snare (1900)
• A Millionaire of Yesterday (1900)
• The Survivor (1901)
• Enoch Strone [aka A Master of Men] (1901)
• A Sleeping Memory [aka The Great Awakening] (1902) (* filmed 1917)
• The Traitors (1902)
• A Prince of Sinners (1903)
• The Yellow Crayon (1903)
• The Betrayal (1904)
• Anna the Adventuress (1904)
• A Maker of History (1905)
• The Master Mummer (1905)
• A Lost Leader (1906)
• The Tragedy of Adrea [aka A Monk of Cruta] (1906)
• The Malefactor [aka Mr. Wingrave, Millionaire] (1906) (*filmed 1919)
• Berenice (1907)
• The Avenger [aka The Conspirators] (1907)
• The Great Secret [aka The Secret] (1908)
• The Governor (1908)
• The Distributors [aka Ghosts of Society] (1908) (as Anthony Partridge)
• The Missioner (1908)
• The Kingdom of Earth [aka The Black Watcher] (1909) (as Anthony Partridge)
• Jeanne of the Marshes (1909)
• The Illustrious Prince (1910)
• Passers-By (1910) (as Anthony Partridge)
• The Lost Ambassador [aka The Missing Delora] (1910)
• The Golden Web (1911) (as Anthony Partridge)
• The Moving Finger [aka A Falling Star] (1911)
• Havoc (1911)
• The Court of St. Simon (1912) (as Anthony Partridge)
• The Lighted Way (1912)
• The Tempting of Tavernake (1912)
• The Mischief Maker (1913)
• The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (1913)
• The Way of These Women (1914)
• A People's Man (1914)
• The Vanished Messenger (1914)
• The Black Box (1915)
• The Double Traitor (1915)
• Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)
• The Kingdom of the Blind (1916)
• The Hillman (1917)
• The Cinema Murder [aka The Other Romilly] (1917) (*filmed 1920)
• The Pawns Count (1918)
• The Zeppelin's Passenger [aka Mr. Lessingham Goes Home] (1918)
• The Wicked Marquis (1919)
• The Box with Broken Seals [aka The Strange Case of Mr. Jocelyn Thew] (1919)
• The Curious Quest [aka The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss] (1919)
• The Great Impersonation (1920)
• The Devil's Paw (1920)
• The Profiteers (1921)
• Jacob's Ladder (1921)
• Nobody's Man (1921)
• The Evil Shepherd (1922)
• The Great Prince Shan (1922)
• The Mystery Road (1923)
• The Wrath to Come (1924)
• The Passionate Quest (1924)
• Stolen Idols (1925)
• Gabriel Samara, Peacemaker (1925)
• The Golden Beast (1926)
• Prodigals of Monte Carlo (1926)
• Harvey Garrard's Crime (1926)
• The Interloper [aka The Ex-Duke] (1927)
• Miss Brown of X. Y. O. (1927)
• The Light Beyond (1928)
• The Fortunate Wayfarer (1928)
• Matorni's Vineyard (1928)
• The Treasure House of Martin Hews (1929)
• The Glenlitten Murder (1929)
• The Million Pound Deposit (1930)
• The Lion and the Lamb (1930)
• Up the Ladder of Gold (1931)
• Simple Peter Cradd (1931)
• The Man from Sing Sing [aka Moran Chambers Smiled] (1932)
• The Ostrekoff Jewels (1932)
• Murder at Monte Carlo (1933)
• Jeremiah and the Princess (1933)
• The Gallows of Chance (1934)
• The Man without Nerves [aka The Bank Manager] (1934)
• The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent (1934)
• The Spy Paramount (1934)
• The Battle of Basinghall Street (1935)
• Floating Peril [aka The Bird of Paradise] (1936)
• The Magnificent Hoax [aka Judy of Bunter's Buildings] (1936)
• The Dumb Gods Speak (1937)
• Envoy Extraordinary (1937)
• The Mayor on Horseback (1937)
• The Colossus of Arcadia (1938)
• The Spymaster (1938)
• And Still I Cheat the Gallows (1939)
• Sir Adam Disappeared (1939)
• Exit a Dictator (1939)
• The Strangers' Gate (1939)
• Last Train Out (1940)
• The Shy Plutocrat (1941)

Short story collections

Most of Oppenheim's 37 collections of short stories, 26 of which have been published in the United States, are series with sustained interest in which one group of characters appears throughout.

• The Long Arm of Mannister [aka The Long Arm] (1908)
• Peter Ruff and the Double-Four [aka The Double Four] (1912)
• For the Queen (1912)
• Those Other Days (1912)
• Mr. Laxworthy's Adventures (1913)
• The Amazing Partnership {1914}
• The Game of Liberty [aka An Amiable Charlatan] (1915)
• Mysteries of the Riviera (1916)
• Aaron Rodd, Diviner (1920)
• Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat (1920)
• Hon. Algernon Knox, Detective (1920)
• The Seven Conundrums (1923)
• Michael's Evil Deeds (1923)
• The Inevitable Millionaires (1923)
• The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe (1924)
• The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Gray (1925)
• The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead (1926)
• The Channay Syndicate (1927)
• Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon (1927)
• Madame and Her Twelve Virgins (1927)
• Nicholas Goade, Detective (1927)
• The Exploits of Pudgy Pete (1928)
• Chronicles of Melhampton (1928)
• The Human Chase (1929)
• Jennerton & Co. (1929)
• What Happened to Forester (1929)
• Slane's Long Shots (1930)
• Gangster's Glory [aka Inspector Dickens Retires] (1931)
• Sinners Beware (1931)
• Crooks in the Sunshine (1932)
• The Ex-Detective (1933)
• General Besserley's Puzzle Box (1935)
• Advice Limited (1936)
• Ask Miss Mott (1936)
• Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees (1937)
• A Pulpit in the Grill Room (1938)
• General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box (1939)
• The Grassleyes Mystery (1940)

Film adaptations

• The Black Box (1915)
• Mr Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)
• The Master Mummer (1915)
• The Game of Liberty (1916), also released as Under Suspicion
• The World's Great Snare (1916)
• Master of Men (1917)
• The Hillman, filmed as In the Balance (1917); The Hillman (1924)
• The Court of St. Simon, filmed as The Silent Master (1917)
• The Great Awakening, filmed under its American title A Sleeping Memory (1917)
• Mr Wingrave, Millionaire (aka The Malefactor), filmed as The Test of Honor (1919)
• The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton (1919)
• The Illustrious Prince (1919)
• The Long Arm, filmed under its American title The Long Arm of Mannister (1919)
• The Other Romilly, filmed under its American title The Cinema Murder (1920)
• The Plunderers, filmed under its American title The Golden Web (1920); and again as The Golden Web (1926)
• The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1921)
• The Mystery Road (1921)
• Jeanne of the Marshes, filmed as Behind Masks (1921)
• The Great Impersonation, filmed three times: as a 1921 silent film, then again in 1935 and in 1942
• A Lost Leader (1922)
• The Missioner (1922)
• Expiation (1922)
• False Evidence (1922)
• The Great Prince Shan (1924)
• The Ex-Duke, filmed as Prince of Tempters (1926)
• The Inevitable Millionaires, filmed as Millionaires (1926)
• The Passionate Quest (1926)
• The Temptation of Tavernake, filmed as Sisters of Eve (1926)
• The Lion and the Lamb (1931)
• The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent, filmed as Strange Boarders (1936)
• The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss (1920), also filmed as The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss (1936)

External links

• Works by Edward Phillips Oppenheim at Project Gutenberg
• ebooks by E Phillips Oppenheim at Project Gutenberg Australia
• Works by or about Edward Phillips Oppenheim at the Internet Archive
• Works by E. Phillips Oppenheim at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• 1927 Time cover featuring Oppenheim
• E. Phillips Oppenheim, Prince of Story Tellers at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 October 2009) Daniel Paul Morrison's site which contains extensive lists of writings by Oppenheim.
• The Free Library