The complete online text of The Lost Ambassador by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

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...

For decades, the Ambassador Hotel was one of the jewels of Wilshire Boulevard. Movie stars flocked there while top Big Bands and other legends played at the tamed Cocoanut Grove. The hotel was also the stage for one of America's darkest moments...

WE WERE interested, though not surprised, to see in a story on the Federal page Monday that a lot of people who gave copiously of their money and clout to the Bush campaign have it in mind to become American ambassadors abroad. The problem...