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Died. E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim, 79, London-born "prince of storytellers," publisher-publicized as history's most prolific writer, who dictated more than 150 intriguing tales of intrigue (sometimes four at once to four stenographers) ; at St.-Peter-Port, on Guernsey. Acrawl with femmes fatales and rifled dispatch cases, "Opp's" novels were only more frequently fraught with fantastics than his life: he made poker legal in England, twice almost broke the bank at Monte Carlo, once captured a German...
...Phillips Oppenheim, 79, who has written 150-odd thrillers about international espionage, murder, grand dukes and grand larceny, returned to his prewar Guernsey (Channel Islands) home. On the Oppenheim stove: a sizzler with World War II trimmings...
Last week it was calculated that Faust had topped the combined output of E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, Edgar Wallace and all those who wrote as Nick Carter. More Faustiana remained: the Saturday Evening Post will shortly begin his romantic serial, After April; scheduled for the August Argosy is a short story, By Their Works. Friends said that Faust was in the middle of a Civil War novel when he sailed to Italy...
...MIRAKEL -E. Phillips Oppenheim - Little, Brown ($2). The Oppen-heimily-colored, romantic and adventurous tale of a rich London hotel owner who transported a bevy of war-weary cosmopolites to a fantastic Utopia where man, of course, decided to be entertainingly vile. Good Oppenheim and pleasant diversion for an empty evening...
...Great Impersonation" is taken from that old Oppenheim thriller of a German and Englishman who meet in Africa and discover that they look exactly alike. Comes the war, one of them goes back to spy. The question is which, but we all know the answer...