The Great Impersonation: (Annotated Edition)
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798560887889
- Series
- The Great Impersonation
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-11-08
- Author
- Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Description
It's 1913. In Africa a dissolute, alcoholic, Englishman, Sir Everard Dominey is lost. He stumbles into the camp of a German explorer, Baron von Ragenstein who happens to be identical to him. The two recognise each other as old school-friends and reminisce. Both men have left their home countries for Africa after killing a man. Dominey killed a rival for his wife Rosamund's attention, driving her insane as a result. Von Ragenstein accidentally killed the husband of his lover, Princess Stephanie Eiderstrom.Von Ragenstein is part of a long-term German Secret Service plot to infiltrate the British upper class that has been in progress since von Ragenstein's schooldays in England. He decides that killing Dominey and assuming his identity will give him his chance. Von Ragenstein sends Dominey into the jungle with nothing except several bottles of whiskey, assuming that he will drink himself into a stupor and then die.
