Mr. Marx's Secret

By E. Phillips Oppenheim

"Mr. Marx's Secret," tells the story of Phillip Morton, the son of a yeoman farmer and his stunning but distant wife. When Phillip's father is pushed off the edge of a slate quarry, a servant from the local castle is suspected, and his mother becomes cold towards her son. But things change for Philip when ten years later, Phillip meets Mr. Marx and is both drawn and repulsed by him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Aug 31, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338054623

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.