British author E. Phillips Oppenheim achieved worldwide fame with his thrilling novels and short stories concerning international espionage and intrigue, but including romances, comedies, and parables of everyday life. His novels and short stories have all the elements of blood-racing adventure and intrigue and are precursors of modern-day spy fictions. Readers of Mr. Oppenheim's novels may always count on a story of absorbing interest, turning on a complicated plot, worked out with dexterous craftsmanship. „The Tragedy of a Week" is an entertaining tale with lots of unexpected turns and twists, published in 1984. If you haven't discovered the joys of Oppenheim's mysteries there is a good place to start.