Edward Phillips Oppenheim

A Monk of Cruta Edward Phillips Oppenheim

A Monk of Cruta is an involved and curious monastic romance with a secret revealed at the last moment. "Abortive mysteries are fatiguing even for holiday perusal, and we can scarcely conceive that anyone will persevere with A Monk of Cruta for pleasure. The book opens with an unnecessary murder, and all sorts of sensations are anticipated from chapter to chapter but never overtaken. The silly, vulgar personages all behave in a way which is only explicable by charitably assuming their lunacy. We scarcely know whether to marvel most over the artlessness of the villains or the simplicity of the fools whom they delude. And the author is evidently as ignorant of the society he seeks to describe as he is of the way to tell a story or delineate a character. Martin de Vaux married a duke's daughter, so she is sometimes called Mrs. de Vaux and sometimes Lady de Vaux. "Bon cameradie" is presumably intended for French." - The Saturday review of politics, literature, science and art, Volume 88 Edward Phillips Oppenheim was an English novelist and writer of genre fiction including thrillers. Featured on the cover of Time magazine on September 12, 1927, he was the self-styled "prince of storytellers." He composed one hundred and fifty novels, mainly of the suspense and international intrigue nature, was the earliest writer of spy and invented the "Rogue Male" school of adventure thrillers. This book was edited by a human being. It has no missing or blurred pages, nor errant marks. Spelling errors, and omitted or unintended characters, will be few, if any.