Up the Ladder of Gold
First edition (UK)
AuthorE. Phillips Oppenheim
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherHodder 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]

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]

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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