Miss Brown of X.Y.O.
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| genre = Thriller
| publisher = Hodder and Stoughton
Little, Brown (US)
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Miss Brown of X. Y. O. is a 1927 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.Reilly p.1135 It was notable amongst thrillers of the time for its use of an everyday female character as heroine.Betz p.170Ehland & Wachter p.152
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 reveals an anarchistic plot to plunge Europe into a fresh war.
References
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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.
External links
- [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015063937034&view=1up&seq=9 Full text of Miss Brown of X.Y.O. at HathiTrust Digital Library]
Category:Novels by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Category:British thriller novels
Category:British mystery novels
Category:Hodder & Stoughton books
Category:Little, Brown and Company books
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