E. Phillips Oppenheim 
The Great Impersonation 

The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing.

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Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 — 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, in his lifetime a major and successful writer of genre fiction including thrillers.