Aaron Rodd, Diviner: A Harvey Grimm Mystery

By E. Phillips Oppenheim

A Harvey Grimm mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946), the author of more than 100 novels and 37 short story collections. An English novelist, in his lifetime he was a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers. This volume was originally published in Harper's Bazaar under the series title "A Misfortune in Diamonds."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Jul 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781479427840

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.

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