The Mischief-Maker is an interesting and amusing book, revolving around relations between Great Britain, France, and Germany with some characters developed very well. This collection of stories by E. Phillips Oppenheim attempts to compile many of his classic thoughts and offer them at an affordable price, consolidated in a single draft so that everyone can read them. Some stories are gruesome and bizarre, others softly creep up on you and pull you in. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Mischief-Maker is both modern and readable. The book has so many twists and turns that can engage a reader as the story revolves around before World War I, a London politician who is falsely accused of a sexual scandal escapes to Paris and becomes embroiled in plots involving Germany, France, and England.
E. 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.
