The Great Secret

Description

English nobleman Hardross Courage has a decent life. He has all the money he desires, does sports and hunting, owns and manages the family estate, and overall lives a contented life. On his way to London to join a cricket competition, Hardross is provoked by a man who compels his way into his hotel room entreating him to conceal him. He told him that some people want to kill him. There starts a story that is about to make a change in Hardross’ serene life to a life of clandestine and reconnaissance.

The Great Secret includes Room No. 317; A Midnight Raid; Miss Van Hoyt; A Match At Lord’s; On The Terrace; Mr. Guest; A Tete-À-Tete Dinner; In The Toils; An Unexpected Visitor; Worley Foote – The Spy; A Legacy Of Danger; Old Friends; The Shadow Deepens; Gathering Jackals; A Dying Man; I Take Up My Legacy; Nagaski’s Instinct; In The Death Chamber; An Affair Of State; Traveling Companions; For You; Loved I Not Honor More; The Pretender; A Practical Woman; A Cable From Europe; For Value Received; International Politics; Double Dealing; I Change My Nationality; The Waiters Union; In The Enemy’s Camp; Sir Gilbert Has A Surprise; A Reunion of Hearts; Rifle Practice; Hirsch’s Wife; An Urgent Warning; The Black Bag; A Last Resource; Working The Oracle; The Oracle Speaks.

Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English author, in his days a noteworthy and successful novelist of genre fiction such as thrillers.

Edward Phillips Oppenheim was born on October 22, 1866 in Leicester, to his parents Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather entrepreneur. He was employed in his father’s leather business for around twenty years. He attended the Wyggeston Grammar School.

His literary prestige made him buy a villa in France and a yacht, next to a residence in Guernsey, although all of his properties were lost during the World War II.
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