While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The author of more th...
'COME on you lot, I wanna gettoff' ome tonight.' My Uncle Ken, his sons Stephen and Andy and myself were lingering in the huge upper tier of the Holte End at Aston Villa Football Club, Birmingham. I'd travelled up that day from Oxford...
An appeal by Russia's espionage chief to prospective double agents doesn't seem to have turned up any new traitors. But it did inspire a burst of front-page humor in Russian newspapers. Several dailies couldn't help guffawing last week in response to the unusual...