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1934 novel

The Spy Paramount
First edition
AuthorE. Phillips Oppenheim
Cover artistBip Pares
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy Thriller
PublisherHodder and Stoughton
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date1934
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Spy Paramount is a 1934 spy thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. It was republished in 2014 by British Library Publishing.

Synopsis

An American Martin Fawley in Rome is recruited by Fascist Italy's spy chief General Berati to go undercover in a mission that takes him to Nice and Monte Carlo. Fawley, a veteran of the First World War is eager to take part in a plan that will try and secure world peace and prevent any future war.

References

  1. Reilly p.1135
  2. Simonetti & Rossi p.61
  3. The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company, 1935. p.12

Bibliography

  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Simonetti, Paolo & Rossi, Umberto. Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.


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