The Spy Paramount

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Little, Brown (US)

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The Spy Paramount is a 1934 spy thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.Reilly p.1135Simonetti & Rossi p.61The New York Times Book Review. New York Times Company, 1935. p.12 It was republished in 2014 by British Library Publishing.

Synopsis

An American Martin Fawley in Rome is recruited by Fascist Italy's spy chief General Berati to go undercover in a mission that takes him to Nice and Monte Carlo. Fawley, a veteran of the First World War is eager to take part in a plan that will try and secure world peace and prevent any future war.

References

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Bibliography

  • Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
  • Simonetti, Paolo & Rossi, Umberto. Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails: Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

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Category:1934 British novels

Category:Novels by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Category:British thriller novels

Category:British spy novels

Category:Novels set in Rome

Category:Novels set in France

Category:Novels set in London

Category:Novels set in Monaco

Category:Hodder & Stoughton books

Category:Little, Brown and Company books

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