| Miss Brown of X.Y.O. | |
| Author: | E. Phillips Oppenheim |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Thriller |
| Publisher: | Hodder and Stoughton Little, Brown (US) |
| Release Date: | 1927 |
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Miss Brown of X. Y. O. is a 1927 mystery thriller novel by the British writer E. Phillips Oppenheim.[1] It was notable amongst thrillers of the time for its use of an everyday female character as heroine.[2] [3]
Miss Brown is a respectable London-based typist is walking through the fog-covered streets of Kensington when she is urgently called in to type down a letter for Colonel Dessiter who has just killed a foreign spy and has been shot himself in the process. The message reveals an anarchistic plot to plunge Europe into a fresh war.