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Miss Brown of X.Y.O.

1927 novel

Miss Brown of X. Y. O. is a 1927 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.[1] It was notable amongst thrillers of the time for its use of an everyday female character as heroine.[2][3]

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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

  1. [1]
    Reilly p.1135
  2. [2]
    Betz p.170
  3. [3]
    Ehland & Wachter p.152

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.


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