The Curious Quest (Annotated)

The Curious Quest is a briskly plotted romance of pursuit, secrecy, and moral testing, characteristic of E. Phillips Oppenheim's mature popular fiction. Moving through drawing rooms, streets, and shadowed social encounters, the novel turns the idea of a "quest" into both an external search and an inquiry into character. Its prose is lucid, urbane, and economical, relying on poised dialogue, sudden...