An Amiable Charlatan

In An Amiable Charlatan, E. Phillips Oppenheim offers a study in charm as subtle power and deception as a social art. The novel unfolds within the cultivated salons and shadowed corridors of European high society, where reputations are minted in whispers and undone by a raised eyebrow. At its center stands a figure at once engaging and elusive—a man whose wit disarms suspicion even as his motives invite it. He moves through drawing rooms and diplomatic circles with a lightness that suggests...