Captain Dieppe

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933) was an English playwright and writer, who coined the Ruritania. His father - a priest, a mother - aunt of the writer Kenneth Grahame. He graduated from Oxford. Started as a lawyer engaged in literature, essays and novels published in newspapers and magazines. This success brought him two action-packed novel - "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894) and its sequel "Rupert of Hentzau" (1898), deserved not only popular with the general public, but also to high critical acclaim. During his life, he wrote many works that remain popular today.

"Captain Dieppe" is a excellent novel by Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins. Two women, one married and the other not, exchange identities to deceive the wife's husband. Captain Dieppe, soldier of fortune, arrives at the Castle Fieramondi and wood the woman he thinks is the wife. Hot on Dieppe heels is a detective of the French Republic, whom Dieppe had tried to overthrow in a coup.  If you like interesting and entertaining books, you should read this.