Anna the Adventuress

By E. Phillips Oppenheim

Annabel Pellissier, for reasons of her own, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a coquette. Endless complications ensue when both sisters return to London.This is one of the late E. Phillips Oppenheim’s most intriguing stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing
• Release date: Jul 23, 2014
• ISBN: 9781312356832

E. Phillips Oppenheim

E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was a bestselling English novelist. Born in London, he attended London Grammar School until financial hardship forced his family to withdraw him in 1883. For the next two decades, he worked for his father’s business as a leather merchant, but pursued a career as a writer on the side. With help from his father, he published his first novel, Expiation, in 1887, launching a career that would see him write well over one hundred works of fiction. In 1892, Oppenheim married Elise Clara Hopkins, with whom he raised a daughter. During the Great War, Oppenheim wrote propagandist fiction while working for the Ministry of Information. As he grew older, he began dictating his novels to a secretary, at one point managing to compose seven books in a single year. With the success of such novels as The Great Impersonation (1920), Oppenheim was able to purchase a villa in France, a house on the island of Guernsey, and a yacht. Unable to stay in Guernsey during the Second World War, he managed to return before his death in 1946 at the age of 79.

Reviews for Anna the Adventuress

[kylekatz · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Anna and Annabel are sisters who look very much alike. Annabel is a bit of a floozy and Anna is a quiet artistic type. One day Annabel lies to a suitor and says she is Anna, and Anna goes along with the charade which leads to endless confusion and hijinx. Eventually they get it all sorted out and both end up with the men they love. There's a body and quite a bit of detection too. Oppenheim is very good at imposters and charades.