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...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sleuth to Sleuth | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Among Manhattan literary agents, who get authors into print for 10% of the proceeds, the choice of Mr. Oppenheim, Hugh Walpole and the estates of John Galsworthy and Joseph Conrad is a 47-year-old British Army officer named Eric Pinker. Son of London's famed James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sleuth to Sleuth | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...their publishing teeth, Eric Pinker took over his family's lucrative U. S. business in 1930. Since then he and his partner-wife, Actress Adrienne Morrison (mother of Cinemactresses Constance and Joan Bennett), have captivated many a literary tea. Shocking it was, therefore, when angry old Author Oppenheim accused Eric Pinker of withholding $21,000 owed him for U. S. publication of his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sleuth to Sleuth | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

This had been verbally delivered in Berlin by the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought it by air from London. As Sir Nevile was leaving Croydon, he added an E. Phillips Oppenheim touch by portentously remarking to cameramen : "You had better be quick-this is the last chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Plan No. 3 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...same military maps went with Mr. Lloyd George a few days later to his conferences with Premier Léon Blum and Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour. This week the E. Phillips Oppenheim nature of these activities was raised to the nth degree when Lloyd George, who had sped from Paris to London, sped back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hospitality! | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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