Miss Brown of X.Y.O.
Author | E. Phillips Oppenheim |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller |
Publisher | Hodder and Stoughton Little, Brown (US) |
Publication date | 1927 |
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Miss Brown of X. Y. O. is a 1927 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.[1] It was notable amongst thrillers of the time for its use of an everyday female character as heroine.[2] [3]
Synopsis[]
Miss Brown is a respectable London-based typist is walking through the fog-covered streets of Kensington when she is urgently called in to type down a letter for Colonel Dessiter who has just killed a foreign spy and has been shot himself in the process. The message reveleas an anarchistic plot to plunge Europe into a fresh war.
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Betz, Phyllis M. Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre. McFarland, 2021.
- Ehland, Christoph & Wachter, Cornelia. Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945. BRILL, 2016.
- Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
Categories:
- 1927 British novels
- Novels by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- British thriller novels
- British mystery novels
- Hodder & Stoughton books
- Novels set in London
- 1920s novel stubs
- Thriller novel stubs