Edward Phillips Oppenheim

The Amazing Partnership

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"The mysterious Mr. Sabin is an unscrupulous French royalist who aids the German government in a conspiracy of war against England. His part in the plot is that of securing valuable papers recording the coast defenses of England, for which services he demands Germany's conquest of France and the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Prince Henri and his cousin, Helene of Bourbon"--Cumulative Book Review Digest, Vol. 1, no. 10, page 264.

Mysterious Mr. Sabin

Lord Dutley tries to retrieve a secret formula for artificial silk.

The Million Pound Deposit

The Curious Quest

The Box with Broken Seals

The Glenlitten Murder

The Pawns Count

"You're in luck, Alfred," he declared. "That's the most interesting man in New York-one of the most interesting in the world. That's Sanford Quest." "Who's he?" "You haven't heard of Sanford Quest?" "Never in my life." The young man whose privilege it was to have been born and lived all his days in New York, drank half a glassful of wine and leaned back in his chair. Words, for a few moments, were an impossibility. "Sanford Quest," he pronounced at last, "is the greatest master in criminology the world has ever known. He is a magician, a scientist, the Pierpont Morgan of his profession." "Say, do you mean that he is a detective?" The New Yorker steadied himself with an effort. Such ignorance was hard to realise-harder still to deal with. "Yes," he said simply, "you could call him that-just in the same way you could call Napoleon a soldier or Lincoln a statesman..."

The Black Box

The Missioner

The Malefactor

Peter Ruff and the Double-four

The Devil'S Paw, A Novel by Edward Phillips Oppenheim, first published in 1920, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

A Novel

The Devil's Paw

The girl who was dying lay in an invalid chair piled up with cushions in a sheltered cornerof the lawn. The woman who had come to visit her had deliberately turned away her headwith a murmured word about the sunshine and the field of buttercups. Behind them wasthe little sanitarium, a gray stone villa built in the style of a château, overgrown withcreepers, and with terraced lawns stretching down to the sunny corner to which the girlhad been carried earlier in the day. There were flowers everywhere-beds of hyacinths, and borders of purple and yellow crocuses. A lilac tree was bursting into blossom, thebreeze was soft and full of life. Below, beyond the yellow-starred field of which the womanhad spoken, flowed the Seine, and in the distance one could see the outskirts of Paris."The doctor says I am better," the girl whispered plaintively. "This morning he was quitecheerful. I suppose he knows, but it is strange that I should feel so weak-weaker even dayby day. And my cough-it tears me to pieces all the time."

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