AN AMIABLE CHARLATAN (1915)
I enjoyed reading this book very much. You can read it with a smile and imagine the author himself enjoying writing this jeu d'esprit. After all Oppenheim wrote some 150 published books and if you are that prolific you deserve to be light-hearted.
Our typically English hero Paul Walmsley is sitting in a fashionable London restaurant-eating his French meal and drinking his German wine- when he meets an American conman and his beautiful daughter. Lured by his attraction to the daughter, the soon-to-be MP finds himself drawn in to a variety of shady schemes by the ingenious Mr Joseph H. Parker.
This is a novella length initial story with several short stories featuring the same characters.
Summary: the work of an amiable charmer, a book that is highly readable.
Themes: Humour, adventure, romance. 9/10
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