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The Golden Beast

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The Golden Beast
First edition (UK)
AuthorE. Phillips Oppenheim
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherHodder and Stoughton (UK)
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1926
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Golden Beast is a 1926 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. Oppenheim was prolific, bestselling author whose popularity reached its height during the interwar years.[1] The novel was published in America by Little, Brown.[2]

Synopsis

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After the accidental death of his son, Lord Honerton forcefully secures the execution of the gamekeeper who had struck him after objecting to his making love to his daughter. A curse seems to fall on the family, owners of a Norfolk country estate, and many years later the youngest son of the family disappears without trace - baffling the efforts of Scotland Yard to find him.

References

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  1. ^ Server p.204
  2. ^ Reilly p.1135

Bibliography

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  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Server, Lee. Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers. Infobase Publishing, 2014.
  • Standish, Robert. The Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim. P. Davies, 1957.
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