Edgar - Libros y biografía

The name, Edgar Wallace, threads through early twentieth century crime fiction like a stream that turns out to be a lot deeper and wider than you thought. This is one of his works. A thrilling tale of...

„Big Foot” is a 1927 crime novel by Edgar Wallace. This is one of the most significant of his works because of the character Sooper, a detective from Metropolitan Guard. Footprints and a dead woman bring...

Thomas Maple lives on Crystal Palace Road with his niece Verity. He works for a firm of bank note engravers. However, the dollar bills he shows Wentworth Gold are forgeries – perfect except for the missing...

„Angel Esquire” (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance...

„Educated Evans” is the first novel in the ’Evans’ series. These stories combine Wallace’s talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. The eponymous principal character is a London racing...

The hero, the discharged Army Captain Reginald Hex, was the prototype for Anthony Newland, whose adventures were related several years later in The Brigand (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1927). The...

Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. „The...

Robert Brewer ha un chiodo fisso. E un solo, terribile avversario: il Sindacato del crimine. Questa associazione di criminali incalliti imperversa nell’intero continente senza risparmiare niente e nessuno....

The first created thing was light. Then life came, then death. In between was fear. But not love. Love was absent. In Eden, there was none. Adam and Eve emerged there adult. The phases of the delicate...

When Mr. Thomas Lyne, poet, poseur. and owner of Lyne's Emporium insults a cashier, Odette Rider, she resigns. Having summoned detective Jack Tarling to investigate another employee, Mr. Milburgh, Lyne...

'I want you to go up the Isango, Bones, ' said Sanders, 'there may be some trouble there - a woman is working miracles.' Unexpected things happen in the territories of the Belgian Congo where Commissioner...

British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting King...

Ein Gaunerstücklein mit einem Gentleman-Gauner. Anthony Newton gehörte zu der Masse nach dem Krieg nicht mehr benötigten Offiziere. Ganz abgebrannt und kurz davor in einer Bank mit einem schwarzen Tuch...

Edgar Wallace enjoyed writing science fiction. „Planetoid 127”, first published in 1929 but reprinted as late 1962, is a short story about an Earth scientist who communicates via wireless with his counterpart...

A collection of 23 stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life –...

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial...

This is one of Edgar Wallace’s best and most exciting thrillers. Jack O’ Judgment is light-hearted, insouciant, masked mystery man, who sets out to expose a gang of daring crooks who are amassing millions...

This is the story of a young female criminal mastermind who leads a gang in a series of exceptionally daring and very profitable robberies but works as secretary to keep her cover story intact. When she...

Various people had tried, and failed, to break the strong will of Diana Ford. Her lawyers, for instance, thought they could dissuade her from coming to England. Her cousin, Gordon Salisbury, found she...

Eine mehr als nur kurzweilige Geschichte, die uns Edgar Wallace, der Meister des englischen Krimis hier erzählt: Der Herrensitz Marks Priory war schon zur Zeit der Sachsen gegründet worden und der jetzige...

What more fitting place for the last man on Earth to live in than a museum? Now if only he could avoid becoming an exhibit himself!

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875 to actors Mary Jane Richards and T.H. Edgar. As an infant he was adopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate...

Die Bande des Schreckens ermordet den Richter, den Henker und den Bankier, die dazu beigetragen haben, ihren Chef aufzuhängen. Der Detektiv ist als nächster dran. Es ist der Wetter Long, sogenannt, weil...

Comment voler les Joyaux de la Couronne? Par la Porte du Traitre, bien sûr! Un thriller d'Edgar Wallace qui joue avec les nerfs alors que se dévoilent les préparatifs minutieux de ce vol inouï... Et le...

Les agissements de Harlow, millionnaire énigmatique soupçonné d'être «Le mystificateur», sont suivis de près par les inspecteurs Carlton, du Foreign Office et Elk de Scotland Yard ainsi que ceux de l'acteur-escroc...

Charles Peace est petit et très laid. Ce «méchant petit homme» est employé par Mme Stahm, la capitaine d'industrie, dans sa lutte acharnée et souterraine pour récupérer la formule de «l'acier-argent»...

L'Appartement N°2 (Flat Two) est un roman policier de l'écrivain britannique Edgar Wallace publié en 1931.Das E-Book Appartement n°2 wird angeboten von Books on Demand und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen...

Dr. Digby Groat war schon als Kind ein Scheusal: Er quälte Tiere und Menschen, die ihm unterlegen waren bis aufs Blut. Jetzt wartet er auf ein Millionenerbe und weiß, dass er es nur erhält, wenn die Voraussetzungen...

Ein junger Dandy heiratet unter dem Namen seines Halbbruders, Sir James Tynewood eine Schauspielerin der leichteren Sorte. Diese ist nur an seinem Geld und dem Familienschmuck interessiert. Der echte...

Zwei Jahre Pandemie aus der Sicht eines Offenbacher Musikers in der Geisterwelt und eine AC/DC-Coverband, die in einer merkwürdigen Zwischenwelt im Schatten Frankfurts gelandet ist. Musikinstrumente werden...