The Zeppelin's Passenger is an adventure novel by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Set amid the talk and tensions of the First World War, it turns on a mysterious Zeppelin flight and the secrets surrounding a passenger. It offers period atmosphere, intrigue and suspense for readers who enjoy early twentieth-century adventure fiction.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
THE ZEPPELIN'S PASSENGER By E. Phillips Oppenheim CHAPTER I “Never heard a sound,” the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. “No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night soon after eleven—the Colonel had been route marching us all off our legs—and I never awoke until reveille this morning. Sleep of the just, and all that sort of thing, but a jolly sell, all the same! You hear anything of it, sir?” he asked, turning to his companion, who was seated a few feet away. Captain Griffiths shook his head. He was a man considerably older than his questioner, with long, nervous face, and thick black hair streaked with grey. His fingers were bony, his complexion, for a soldier, curiously
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