Last Train Out

309 pp. World War Two set espionage novel of a Jewish art collector who, together with the British Embassy, "work out a ruse to outwit the Nazis and whisk the art treasures over the border by the last train out before invasion". ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.