The Zeppelin's Passengers - Oppenheim, E. Phillips

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Résumé :
The Zeppelin's Passenger is a fictional suspense story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. A Zeppelin crashes in a small English town and at first, no one realizes it was carrying a mysterious passenger. A tense melodrama about espionage and romance during World war I. The plot revolves around the residents of Dreymarsh finding an observation car from a German zeppelin and a Homburg hat nearby. When Mr. Hamar Lessingham, an Englishman, shows up at Sir Henry Cranston's home, Mainsail Haul, the mystery becomes even more difficult. Hand-carried letters from Major Richard Halstead and a British POW in Germany are carried by Lessingham. He gives them to Helen, Halstead's fianc?e, and Phillipa Halstead, who haven't heard anything about Richard's whereabouts and are very worried. Sir Henry's wife Phillipa falls head over heels for Lessingham after thinking Sir Henry is a coward for not joining the war effort. Will Phillipa and Helen Halstead's letters have a cost? Will everything get revealed? To know the conclusion readers should read the book!

Biographie:
Phillips Oppenheim was born on October 22, 1866, in Tohhenham, London, England, to Henrietta Susannah Temperley Budd and Edward John Oppenheim, a leather retailer. After leaving school at age 17, he helped his father in his leather business and used to write in his extra time. His first novel, Expiration (1886), and subsequent thrillers piqued the interest of a wealthy New York businessman who eventually bought out the leather business and made Oppenheim a high-paid director.He is more focused on dedicating most of his time to writing. The novels, volumes of short stories, and plays that followed, numbering more than 150, were about humans with modern heroes, fearless spies, and stylish noblemen. The Long Arm of Mannister (1910), The Moving Finger (1911), and The Great Impersonation (1920) are three of his most famous essays.