Edgar - Libros y biografía

Voici le chemin d’un hommeVoici la pensée qui s’est formée au cours de ce cheminement et qui a produit une œuvre majeure.Ce parcours fut continu, accompli dans une curiositéjamais assouvie, un questionnement...

Plus que jamais, à l'occasion de la succession de Brejnev et de l'avènement de Iouri Andropov, se pose " à bout portant ", autant comme une énigme que comme une menace, la question: qu'est-ce que l'U.R.S.S.?Comme...

A gripping diamond heist page-turner from the father of the modern thriller.When a valuable diamond is stolen, a private investigator is sent to track him down. However, the trail turns cold when the...

James Bond meets Sherlock Holmes in this classic, high-octane, spy thriller.When the police can't find the evidence to put away master criminal Caesar Valentine, there's only one man for the job.Number...

John Sands desperately needs a bribe. Fast. When an escaped convict turns up on his sofa one morning, John thinks he has found his luck. But will one criminal mind to another be able to dig John out of...

One of Wallace's first published works, 'Writ in Barracks' is a collection of poems written while the author was stationed in South Africa and acting as a reporter.While there is a sense of 'king and...

If you can imagine Rowan Atkinson's 'Mr Bean' as a lieutenant serving in Africa during the days of the British Empire, then you've got a good idea of 'Lieutenant Bones.'When Commissioner Sanders goes...

Three suspects. Three motives. One dead body. Emil Louba is a wealthy club-owning criminal with more enemies than friends. One night, three men with three different grudges decide to pay him a visit,...

Edgar Wallace's 'Army Reform' unravels the opinions, thoughts, and experiences of Private Smith during World War One. Packed with witty humour and peppered with sarcasm, this autobiographical short story...

Set during the First World War, 'A Day with von Tirpitz' sees Billy Best and Tam returning from a bombing raid, where the German naval commander is staying. When engine trouble and fog bring their aeroplane...

When a man is found dead one early morning with his throat cut, detective J.G. Reeder knows he is about to have his work cut out for him. It can but only be the work of John Flack, Crazy John Flack. An...

Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong has the dubious honour of being the only UK solicitor to be executed for murder. 'Herbert Armstrong – Poisoner' details the courtroom proceedings following his arrest, documented...

On July 15th, 1912, the body of Dora Grey was found on Yarmouth Beach. Apparently strangled, this became known as 'The Bootlace Murder,' believed by investigators to be the work of a serial killer. 'The...

Laying the foundations for the likes of 'Silence of the Lambs,' starring Anthony Hopkins, 'The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder' follows an investigator with the mind of a criminal. From the outside, our hero...

The ninth instalment in the 'Sanders of the River' series, ´Sandi the King-Maker´ provides a fitting end for our eponymous hero.When a missionary and his daughter go missing in Africa, Commissioner Sanders...

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, 'Smithy.' The first in the...

Between 1904 and 1918, Wallace collected tales about life in the British Army and the escapades and adventures of the troops. These led him to create the eponymous character, 'Smithy.'The third book in...

Inspector T.B. Smith of Scotland Yard has got a lot on his plate. Two men are found shot to death outside the door of a millionaire, who happens to live just a few doors down from Smith himself. And a...

What seems at first sight to be just another murder mystery is quickly revealed to be of international importance. Bio-terrorists threaten the release of an agent that will destroy the world's corn crops,...

'The Three Just Men' belongs to the famous 'Four Just Men' anthology created by Edgar Wallace, and follows the vigilante group at the later stages of their lives. They are older now and they've changed,...

Just as they are about to depart from London for a dazzling holiday in Montecarlo, Inspector Holt and his valet Sunny are abruptly summoned by Scotland Yard to investigate a string of sudden, bizarre...

The Ringer, the legendary killer is dead, his body pulled from the Sydney harbour, the world may now breathe a sigh of relief. That is until the Ringer's sister is found dead in the Thames. Inexplicably,...

When a man ignores his last warning to pay pound100,000, it is his son who finds him dead on the next morning. Revolving around a mysterious circle, specializing in blackmail, called The Crimson Circle,...

Dukes aren't meant to be Texas Cowboys. But the Duc de Montevillier is just that. Having made his fortune in silver, he relocates to the leafy London suburb of Kymott Crescent—much to the dismay of his...

A classic whodunit crime story, "The Man Who Knew" is about the death of a rich South Africa magnate, dealing with diamonds. The actual man who knows so much is Saul Arthur Mann, a walking encyclopedia...

'Room 13' is the first crime novel in the J. G. Reeder series, featuring a sympathetic and astute civil servant, who is simultaneously a gifted detective. This fast-paced, mystery-ridden and thoroughly...

This police thriller opens with Scotland Yard Detective Surefoot Smith as he is called to a strange murder scene. Tom Tickler, a well-known petty thief has been brutally murdered, his corpse left in an...

'The Council of Justice' is the second book in the 'Four Just Men' universe, which follows a group of wealthy vigilantes doling out justice. In this entry the vigilante group must face down the Red Hundred,...

'The Law of Four Just Men' follows a group of four wealthy vigilantes who hunt down evil that the law cannot reach for punishment. Where conventional justice fails these men will not. Using their vast...

An unusual novel in Wallace's collection, it is not told linearly but instead it is an adventure novel told in the form of witness statements to a journalist. It follows Captain Tatham as he and his crew...