Talk:The Ostrekoff Jewels

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I have taken the time to fill out the stub with a plot summary because of my personal affection for The Ostrekoff Jewels, which I originally read in 1987 and have recently reread (which I recognize means nothing to the monitoring staff). I first discovered E. Phillips Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace books in a second-hand store in the 1960s, as a young teenager, and have enjoyed them sporadically in the intervening years. I still own those old, dusty volumes.

E. Phillips Oppenheim was once among the most popular English mystery/adventure writers of his era. His books were so popular that they were turned into movies in the Thirties and Forties. Many remain in print and are still available for purchase despite nine decades having passed. Project Gutenberg Australia includes a long list of available electronic versions of Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace novels. I believe Wikipedia benefits from descriptions of his novels (I will make fleshing out Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace novels my personal pet project), which have passed the test of longevity in ways that contemporary novels such as "Gone Girl" are unlikely to have in another decade. Your annotations indicate that Low-Importance ranked articles are subject to deletion. I wholeheartedly suggest that E. Phillips Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace novels deserve to be included in Wikipedia with a higher status.

The Ostrekoff Jewels is an engaging way of getting young readers lightly acquainted with the Russian Revolution, Bolshevism, WWII, and other historical global issues. Such reading stimulated my interest on first reading E. Phillips Oppenheim, Edgar Wallace, and other mystery/adventure "classics" at age 13. Ariadne000 (talk) 18:24, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]