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The Pawns Count is a thrilling mystery novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The book follows the story of a young and ambitious lawyer named Richard Viner who is hired by a wealthy businessman named John Minute to investigate a mysterious set of circumstances surrounding Minute's... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

The Pawns Count is a thrilling espionage novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The story revolves around a young man named Richard Wentworth, who is recruited by the British Secret Service to undertake a dangerous mission in Germany during World War I. Wentworth is tasked with... Read Full Overview

"He smiled for a moment, and Pamela felt unreasonably annoyed at the twinkle in his eyes. "I am not a soldier by profession," he said, "but I went out with the Expeditionary Force and had a year of it. They kept me here, after a slight wound, to take up my old work again." "Your... Read Full Overview

Edward Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1918, he was the self-styled "prince of storytellers. " He composed more than a hundred... Read Full Overview