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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type. Her chief weakness seems to be that she is given to sudden uprushes of emotion around men, either pro or con, and, when they are pro, she generally ends up with a little more patchwork. This failing leads to a purple scene with the specialist himself...

Author: By Albert G. Churchill, | Title: Tattered Madonna | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

...nearly so suave as J. S. Fletcher nor so subtle as E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace stands alone for versatility and production volume. As purveyor of mass literature for King, commoner and shopgirl, he is the master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Accepting this as gospel, Mr. Stokes has told the irreverent truth about E. Phillips Oppenheim, Sinclair Lewis, Fanny Ward, Susan Ertz, and other celebrities of the moment in "Pilloried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...international intrigue, later 20th century, Author Richard Keverne poaches on E. Phillips Oppenheim's preserves. Mystery runs so high, so thick, so fast, that it is guaranteed by a sealed ending?money back if you can resist breaking the seal of The Havering Plot (Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Author E. Phillips Oppenheim's latest detective justifies himself, and the author, by spinning his own yarn, The Treasure House of Martin Hews (Little, Brown, $2), packed with murderers, shocks, electric gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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