The Million Pound Deposit

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The Million Pound Deposit
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First edition (UK)
Author E. Phillips Oppenheim
Original titleFirst US edition
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1930
Media typePrint

The Million Pound Deposit is a 1930 thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. [1] [2] It was published in the United States by Little, Brown. [3]

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Synopsis

The formula for a revolutionary new synthetic silk is stolen from the company producing it and a ransom demand of a million pounds is sent.

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References

  1. Server p.204
  2. Howarth p.137
  3. Reilly p.1135

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