The Spymaster [Spy Master]

300 pp. This is tops for Oppenheim, a sure favorite with all his readers. The setting is London, the subject espionage, but Oppenheim spins his tale with his old zest. Information is leaking from the Naval Intelligence Bureau, and suspicion points to two of the staff and the wife of an American banker. A well-paced yarn, well told. 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.