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Behind the doors of quiet clubs, fashionable hotels and foreign embassies, secrets are exchanged, loyalties tested, and fortunes placed at hazard. The E. Phillips Oppenheim Library presents the complete novels...
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Behind the doors of quiet clubs, fashionable hotels and foreign embassies, secrets are exchanged, loyalties tested, and fortunes placed at hazard. The E. Phillips Oppenheim Library presents the complete novels of the master of intrigue, read in full.
Enter a world of mysterious strangers, diplomatic conspiracies, dangerous journeys, hidden identities and elegant villains. Where a dinner invitation may conceal a plot, and the fate of nations may turn upon a single whispered confidence. Settle in, and discover the thrilling, sophisticated stories that made E. Phillips Oppenheim one of the great popular storytellers of his age.
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Enter a world of mysterious strangers, diplomatic conspiracies, dangerous journeys, hidden identities and elegant villains. Where a dinner invitation may conceal a plot, and the fate of nations may turn upon a single whispered confidence. Settle in, and discover the thrilling, sophisticated stories that made E. Phillips Oppenheim one of the great popular storytellers of his age.
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11 SEP 2026 · In which Mr. Alfred Burton, a diligent young clerk for a mediocre West End agency, conducts a house viewing for an American client, revealing an eerie locked room steeped in mystery and a curious little tree bearing strange fruit. Upon sampling the fruit himself, Burton experiences an inexplicable change that colors his outlook and leads him to dissuade the client from taking the house, a place shadowed by illness and secrets.
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11 SEP 2026 · In which Alfred Burton experiences a sudden and piercing disenchantment with his dreary surroundings and wrestles with a newfound conscience that compels him to honesty, much to the astonishment and chagrin of his employers and co-worker. Transformed in both appearance and spirit, he steps tentatively into a world of finer tastes and deeper yearnings, stirred by art and the faint stirring of remembered names.
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11 SEP 2026 · In which Alfred Burton returns to Garden Green in a startling new appearance, his altered perceptions casting a harsh light upon the familiar, and confronts the unsavoury realities of his domestic sphere with quiet, unsettling candour. His measured reproaches to Mrs Burton about dress and surroundings reveal a man at odds with his own circumstances, caught between reluctant affection and newly awakened dissatisfaction.
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12 SEP 2026 · In which Alfred Burton embarks on a day of quiet self-discovery in London, grappling with newfound intellectual melancholy and the challenge of seeking employment after a decisive break from his past. His encounter with his former employer, Mr. Waddington, leads them to revisit a peculiar and mysterious room in an old house, where curiosity mingles with a sense of the uncanny.
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12 SEP 2026 · In which Mr. Alfred Burton, despite dire straits and a hunger that gnaws both body and spirit, discovers a remarkable gift for truthful description that wins him unexpected literary success and a modest income. His tentative reunion with wife and child reveals the chasms between their worlds, setting him on a path of irrevocable change with a resolution to reconcile the disparities that separate them.
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12 SEP 2026 · In which Mr. Alfred Burton, having adopted a new and modest attire, is thrust reluctantly into the midst of a salesroom fraught with misrepresentations and mounting distrust among bidders. His candid interjections unveil the unsatisfactory nature of the auction's offerings, leading to a rift with his employer and a decisive, albeit uneasy, emancipation from his former duties.
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13 SEP 2026 · In which Mr. Alfred Burton visits a house newly let and finds its former contents mysteriously stolen, leading him to the curious and somewhat discomfited auctioneer Mr. Waddington, who conducts his sale with an unusual candour that unsettles his clientele. The episode unfolds with a mixture of suspicion and intrigue among the crowd, as Burton observes the auctioneer's struggles amidst a room full of doubtful buyers and questionable antiques.
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13 SEP 2026 · In which Mr. Waddington and Burton discuss the curious consequences of newfound honesty that have altered their temperaments and prospects, revealing how truthfulness unexpectedly complicates familiar trades and social interactions. They consider the curious nature of certain magical beans now in their possession, reflecting on the peculiar burdens and uneasy possibilities these afford as they grapple with their unsettled lives.
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13 SEP 2026 · In which the chance meeting between Alfred Burton and the blue-eyed girl unfolds beneath lilac trees and within an old-fashioned garden, revealing a delicate interplay of curiosity, guarded hospitality, and subtle longing. Their conversation, sprinkled with gentle philosophy and whispered confidences, paints a tranquil scene of intersecting lives marked by quiet enchantment and the shadow of unspoken tales.
14 SEP 2026 · In which Alfred Burton confronts his estranged wife Ellen in their modest home, endeavouring to bridge their wide gulf with an extraordinary confession about a miraculous truth-revealing bean. Their painful exchange exposes the stark realities of their discontented lives, culminating in Ellen's fierce rejection and a bittersweet moment of understanding amidst the humbler surroundings they inhabit.
Behind the doors of quiet clubs, fashionable hotels and foreign embassies, secrets are exchanged, loyalties tested, and fortunes placed at hazard. The E. Phillips Oppenheim Library presents the complete novels...
show more
Behind the doors of quiet clubs, fashionable hotels and foreign embassies, secrets are exchanged, loyalties tested, and fortunes placed at hazard. The E. Phillips Oppenheim Library presents the complete novels of the master of intrigue, read in full.
Enter a world of mysterious strangers, diplomatic conspiracies, dangerous journeys, hidden identities and elegant villains. Where a dinner invitation may conceal a plot, and the fate of nations may turn upon a single whispered confidence. Settle in, and discover the thrilling, sophisticated stories that made E. Phillips Oppenheim one of the great popular storytellers of his age.
show less
Enter a world of mysterious strangers, diplomatic conspiracies, dangerous journeys, hidden identities and elegant villains. Where a dinner invitation may conceal a plot, and the fate of nations may turn upon a single whispered confidence. Settle in, and discover the thrilling, sophisticated stories that made E. Phillips Oppenheim one of the great popular storytellers of his age.
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| Organization | Good Old Classics |
| Categories | Fiction |
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