E. Phillips Oppenheim

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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Edward Phillips Oppenheim
BornEdward Phillips Oppenheim
(1866-10-22)22 October 1866
Leicester, UK
Died3 February 1946(1946-02-03) (aged 79)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
Pen nameAnthony Partridge
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1887 to 1943
Genrethriller 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.[1] 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.[2]

Personal life

In 1892 Oppenheim married Elise Clara Hopkins.[2] They lived in Evington, Leicestershire[3] 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.
  • Three Oppenheim compilations published by Stark House Press, Secrets & Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim (2004); Ghosts & Gamblers: The Further Uncollected Stories (2009); and, The Amazing Judgment / Mr. Laxworthy's Adventures (2014), were edited and provided introductions and collector's bibliographies by Daniel Paul Morrison.

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)
  • The Modern Prometheus (1896)
  • The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown (1896)
  • The Wooing of Fortune (1896)
  • The Postmaster of Market Deignton (1897)
  • The Amazing Judgment (1897)
  • Mysterious Mr. Sabin (1898)
  • A Daughter of Astrea (1898)
  • As a Man Lives [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. A Master of Men] (1901)
  • A Sleeping Memory [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. A Monk of Cruta] (1906)
  • The Malefactor [a.k.a. Mr. Wingrave, Millionaire] (1906) (*filmed 1919)
  • Berenice (1907)
  • The Avenger [a.k.a. The Conspirators] (1907)
  • The Great Secret [a.k.a. The Secret] (1908)
  • The Governor (1908)
  • The Distributors [a.k.a. Ghosts of Society] (1908) (as Anthony Partridge)
  • The Missioner (1908)
  • The Kingdom of Earth [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. The Missing Delora] (1910)
  • The Golden Web (1911) (as Anthony Partridge)
  • The Moving Finger [a.k.a. 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 [.ak.a. The Other Romilly] (1917) (*filmed 1920)
  • The Pawns Count (1918)
  • The Zeppelin's Passenger [a.k.a. Mr. Lessingham Goes Home] (1918)
  • The Wicked Marquis (1919)
  • The Box with Broken Seals [a.k.a. The Strange Case of Mr. Jocelyn Thew] (1919)
  • The Curious Quest [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. The Bank Manager] (1934)
  • The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent (1934)
  • The Spy Paramount (1934)
  • The Battle of Basinghall Street (1935)
  • Floating Peril [a.k.a. The Bird of Paradise] (1936)
  • The Magnificent Hoax [a.k.a. 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)
  • Mr. Mirakel (1943)

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 [a.k.a. The Long Arm] (1908)
  • Peter Ruff and the Double-Four [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. 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 [a.k.a. 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

References

  1. ^ "E. Phillips Oppenheim". online-literature.com.
  2. ^ a b Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, accessed 5 February 2011
  3. ^ British History Online R. A. McKinley (editor)(1958) A History of the County of Leicester: volume 4: The City of Leicester

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