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                                             January 15, 2009
                                             April    2, 2009

"The Zeppelin's Passenger" (1918)
by E. Phillips Openheim                [ref]

Openheim apparently has a rep
for being one of the people
who developed the spy novel                           [ref]
form.
                                                      "An Amiable Charlatan"
Reading this novel, I was mildly                      is difficult to put
surprised to see it shows everything                  a date to: wikipedia has
from the women's point of view --                     1915, one source has it
                                                      from Saturday Evening
   SPOILERS                                           Post stories circa
                                                      1913-1914.
And then it dawned on me that what
he was really doing is "The Scarlet            Upon reading Oppenheim's "An
Pimpernel":                                    Amiable Charlatan" (1915) I see
                                               that it's a small variation on
   Dischord between husband and                "Raffles".
   wife, because he dare not tell
   her about his Secret Mission--                 This Raffles-figure has a
   and so he must play the cowardly               beautiful, equally dishonest
   fool, and forfeit her respect.                 daughter, who provides the
                                                  viewpoint character a
     But the German spy (the                      motivation for getting
     passenger of the title) is                   involved.
     plunged into an adventure
     behind enemy lines, much                       MUTATION
     like the Pimpernel.
                                                         Hornung's Raffles
     There are aspects of the                            (from the 1890s),
     original assigned to                                is of course a
     different players...                                variant of Holmes.

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