MYSTERY & SUSPENSE (Annotated)

Mystery & Suspense gathers E. Phillips Oppenheim's characteristic world of coded intentions, drawing-room duplicity, political peril, and sudden reversals of fortune. Written in the polished, brisk manner that made him a defining figure of early twentieth-century popular fiction, the book belongs to the formative tradition of the modern thriller, where crime, espionage, and social comedy intersect...