The Vanished Messenger: Large Print

ISBN-10: 1659010276
ISBN-13: 9781659010275
Series: The Vanished Messenger
Pages: 646
Language: English
Published: 2020-01-14
Author: E Phillips Oppenheim

Description

Mystery novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim involving a handicapped art collector. The book concerns recently demobbed and down on his luck Major Owston, who becomes the bodyguard of the deformed amoral art collector Martin Hews. Enabled by his enormous wealth to buy the world's most beautiful works of art. Hews is plunged into a bitter rivalry with a gang leader simply known as "Joseph". This is a thrilling and tense story of a struggle between master brains, of gang wars, of deceit, of murder, while the sinister Martin Hews sits in his fortified treasure house, and the love story of Beatrice lends romance and beauty. It presents a fascinating picture of unexpected turns and twists.