Up the Ladder of Gold

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Up the Ladder of Gold
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First edition (UK)
Author E. Phillips Oppenheim
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher Hodder and Stoughton
Little, Brown (US)
Publication date
1931
Media typePrint

Up the Ladder of Gold is a 1931 thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim. [1] [2] [3] He dedicated the work to the comedy writer P.G. Wodehouse. [4] It represented the apex of Oppenheim's portrayal of the great man as a dynamic force. [5]

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Synopsis

An American investor Warren Brand attempts to corner the world market in gold in order to try and force the Great Powers to end any future prospect of war. [6]

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References

  1. Reilly p.1135
  2. Panek p.27
  3. Herbert p.143-44
  4. Panek p.29
  5. Panek p.27-29
  6. Magill p.1275

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