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E. Phillips Oppenheim

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upon his death said: "As he recalls in his pleasant and modest autobiography, all his books were easy to write. They were equally easy to read, especially on a summer vacation, when escapist literature is most welcome." He composed by dictating to a secretary and once produced seven works in a single
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until the sixth form in 1883, his family's finances forced him to withdraw and he worked in his father's business for almost twenty years. His father subsidized the publication of his first novel, which proved just successful enough to break even. He published five of his novels between 1908 and 1912
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The Oppenheim family immigrated to England four generations earlier. He reported overhearing a Frenchman referring to him as a "naturalized Hun" and commented: "'A naturalized Hun' with three generations of English-born ancestors behind him!" An ancestor, Ludwig von Oppenheim, was expelled from
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He described his method in 1922: "I create one more or less interesting personality, try to think of some dramatic situation in which he or she might be placed, and use that as the opening of a nebulous chain of events." He never used an outline: "My characters would resent it." When he needed
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Most of Oppenheim's 38 collections of short stories, 27 of which have been published in the United States, are series with sustained interest in which one group of characters appears throughout. In 2004 and 2014, Stark House Press published two collections of previously uncollected Oppenheim
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year. His social set included the characters that populated his novels, where he created "a glamorous world of international intrigue, romance and plushy society galloping along in swift action and suspense". One academic study calls him "a talented entertainer".
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Ulman went into the leather business in 1890 and in a few years became "head of one of the largest and most successful houses engaged in that trade, having valuable connections with all foreign countries and doing an extensive exporting
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explained that "Mr. Oppenheim's crooks are so polished that they have no difficulty in moving in the very best society.... There is very little mystery in this book, but there is dress-suit crime galore." In 1936, a review of
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Around 1900, Julien Stevens Ulman (1865–1920), a wealthy New York leather merchant who enjoyed Oppenheim's books, bought the leather works and made him a salaried director to support his writing career.
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villains for his diplomatic and political intrigues he drew on Prussian militarists and anarchists, enough for one reviewer to lament "the baldness of his propaganda". For example, in
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Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born 22 October 1866 in Tottenham, London, the son of Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather merchant. After attending
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said he "numbers his admirers in the hundreds of thousands and has one or more of his books on a prominent shelf in almost every home one enters". He appeared on the cover of
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Their daughter Geraldine married John Nowell Downes, known as Nowell, and they in turn had at least one son. Geraldine survived her parents.
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In his memoirs, Oppenheim mentions that when first married and living in Leicester he "became a sidesman at the Parish Church". In the
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Oppenheim in his memoirs explains that they chose Guernsey because its climate was better for his health than anyplace in England.
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Reviews for his work treated them as entertainments with only a slight relationship to the mystery genre. In 1933, a review of
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appeared in 2004, with a biographical introduction and collector's bibliography by Morrison. And then in 2014,
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Eighty-four novels have in no way dimmed the imaginative ability of this English mystery writer whose
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R. A. McKinley (editor)(1958) A History of the County of Leicester: volume 4: The City of Leicester
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stories, edited by Daniel Paul Morrison, perhaps the foremost collector of works by Oppenheim.
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assists the church warden with greeting parishioners, seating arrangements, and collections.
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Along with dozens of novel and short story collections, he produced an autobiography,
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This was his estate in England. His Guernsey property was not subject to estate tax.
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Oppenheim (1941). "5: Fred Thomson ate the Bacon, but Calthrop found the Countess".
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England & Wales census, 1871, National Archives ref RG10/1338 folio 72 page 41
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The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
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He quickly found a successful formula and established his reputation. In 1913,
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Ghosts and Gamblers: The Further Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppeneheim
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Oppenheim produced more than 100 novels between 1887 and 1943. They include:
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Secrets and Sovereigns: The Uncollected Stories of E. Phillips Oppenheim
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Oppenheim's literary success enabled him to buy a villa on the
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In 1892 Oppenheim married an American, Elise Clara Hopkins of
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alone would have made for him an international reputation.
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Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim
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and had one daughter. During that war he worked for the
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Oppenheim (1941). "2: I Begin To Stand Upon my Feet".
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A Daughter of the Marionis (To Win the Love He Sought)
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People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys
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Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
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Oppenheim, 79, Noted Author, Dies" 1279:Curious Happenings to the Rooke Legatees 165: 111: 2127:"Mr. Oppenheim Celebrates a Centennial" 2121: 2119: 2117: 2115: 2094:"Oppenheim Reveals Secret of his Tales" 2018:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2013: 2011: 1858: 1633:The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent 1189:Mr. Billingham, the Marquis and Madelon 947:The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent 2549: 2154: 2145: 1936: 1854: 1852: 1850: 1814: 1177:The Little Gentleman from Okehampstead 1159:The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe 1979: 1911: 1291:General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box 2112: 2008: 1861:"Novelist's Memoirs at Seventy-Five" 1647:The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss 1420:The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton 1165:The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray 1073:was published by Stark House Press. 621:The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton 170:Oppenheim with his wife and daughter 1847: 1310: 235:(1920) was called "his best work". 13: 1859:Cournos, John (22 February 1942). 1447:, filmed under its American title 1437:, filmed under its American title 1395:, filmed under its American title 14: 2638: 2622:20th-century English male writers 2612:19th-century English male writers 2451: 1918:. Historical Company. p. 580 1912:Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed. (1898). 1653:The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss 862:The Treasure House of Martin Hews 356:The Postmaster of Market Deignton 2597:English male short story writers 2512: 1478:The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown 343:The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown 2428:Oppenheim, E. 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Index

Edward Phillips Oppenheim
St. Peter Port

Blue plaque
genre fiction
Time
Wyggeston Grammar School
John Buchan

Easthampton, Massachusetts
Evington
First World War
Ministry of Information
The New York Times
Time
The Great Impersonation
French riviera
Guernsey
Second World War
St. Martins
The Mystery of Mr. Bernard Brown
Mysterious Mr. Sabin
The Man and His Kingdom
filmed 1917
A Lost Leader
filmed 1919
The Golden Web
The Temptation of Tavernake
The Double Life of Mr. Alfred Burton
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

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