E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…
The Great Secret
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English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and…
The Great Impersonation
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E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …
The Avenger
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Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she …
The Zeppelin's Passenger
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The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England w…
The Double Traitor
Read by Tom Weiss
The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continue…
The Devil's Paw
Read by Tom Weiss
A beautiful, intelligent young woman – is she a traitorous spy or a patriot? An aristocratic soldier permanently injured during the war – is…
The Yellow House
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that…
The Pawns Count
Read by Tom Weiss
"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted."I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti,…
The Vanished Messenger
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A conference of European nations is being held in the Hague. England has not been invited to attend. Some think war is about to break out. M…
Havoc
Read by Tom Weiss
Havoc occurs when European countries are discussing covert alliances. The story revolves around the creation of a secret alliance between …
The Cinema Murder
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Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behin…
The Box with the Broken Seals
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A convoluted tale of espionage. This entertaining story is set in World War I. It has interesting characters. and I found my sympathies equa…
The Golden Web
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …
Jacob's Ladder
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
This is a story about Jacob Pratt who “stood bond” for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years la…
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2)
Read by Cate Barratt
A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. - Summary by Cate Barratt
The Evil Shepherd
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows,…
Stolen Idols
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Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the su…
The Curious Quest
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …
The Black Box
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)
Sanford Quest, the master criminologist of the world, attempts to bring to justice the murderer of Lord Ashleigh's daughter. But he soon dis…
An Amiable Charlatan
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An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
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Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…
Nobody's Man
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Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. See…
My Religion
Read by David Wales
This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …