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General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box

This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946)

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Title:General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box
Author:
Oppenheim, E. Phillips   
(22 of 77 for author by title)
General Besserley’s Puzzle Box
The Gallows of Chance
Published:   1940
Publisher:Little, Brown and Company
Tags:fiction, mystery
Description:

Grade school variety with Oppenheim trimmings, in story of an ex-soldier and diplomat, silver-tongued helper-outer and fixer-upper, still on the Riviera and still playing ducks and drakes with dukes and snakes and getting embroiled in other people's messes, gambling, love gone wrong and what have you.

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Author Bio for Oppenheim, E. Phillips

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, in full Edward Phillips Oppenheim (born Oct. 22, 1866, London, Eng.—died Feb. 3, 1946, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, U.K.), internationally popular British author of novels and short stories dealing with international espionage and intrigue.

After leaving school at age 17 to help in his father's leather business, Oppenheim wrote in his spare time. His first novel, Expiation (1887), and subsequent thrillers caught the fancy of a wealthy New York businessman who bought out the leather business at the turn of the century and made Oppenheim a high-salaried director. He was thus freed to devote the major part of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, totaling more than 150, were peopled with sophisticated heroes, adventurous spies, and dashing noblemen. Among his well-known works are The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920).--Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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