Edgar - Libros y biografía

Abraham Selim (A. S.) verleiht Geld – aber „vorsichtshalber” nur an Menschen, gegen die er Etwas in der Hand hat. Welche Verbindung hat er zu dem vermögenden Geschäftsmann Merrivan. Fast jede Nacht verließ...

Anthony Newton, der nach vielen Versuchen, nach dem Krieg wieder Fuß zu fassen, sein Auskommen mit Verbrechen verdient. Er hatte den Grundsatz, seine Räubereien auf möglichst höfliche Weise auszuführen....

Zwei Gangsterbanden terrorisieren die Reichen Londons. Die „Gesellschaft zur Sicherung wohlhabender Bürger” garantiert den Reichen Londons Sicherheit – vorausgesetzt, sie bezahlen dafür. Wer der Aufforderung...

Un mystère peut en cacher un autre...Sacha, douze ans, et Jacob, son petit frère, sont à la fois surpris et très contents de partir en vacances avant la fin de l'année scolaire. D'autant qu'ils auront...

This mystery collection, written by British author Edgar Wallace, contains the following works: „Mrs. William Jones and Bill”, „The Adventures of George”, „According to Freud”, „Bondage”, „The Society...

English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles. In the 1920s, one of Wallace’s publishers claimed that a quarter of all...

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as ’’Bones’’ to his associates) returns to London to embark...

Lord Willie Lebanon, Herr auf Schloss Marks Priory, könnte ein glücklicher Mann sein. Aber der alte Lord Lebanon wurde mit einem indischen Tuch erdrosselt. Die Erben versammeln sich und vernehmen den...

This book belongs to the pen of a well-known British author of mystery genre Edgar Wallace and was written during the Great War (the WW1). It is set in a possible 1925, ten years after the war has ended....

Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the „Dark Continent”. Sanders and Co. return to Africa (following the events in Bones in London) to bring the old Kings country under the Union Jack...

Der Redner, so nannten sie Inspektor Rater von Scotland Yard, erfuhr in seinem Urlaub vom Tod Lord Eustace Lightley. Dabei fiel ihn ein, dass der örtliche Apotheker ihm vor Monaten mal von einer Arsenkur...

Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of crime, adventure and humorous stories, whose best known creations include „The Four Just Men”, „Sanders of the River”, and „J. G. Reeder”. In this work, the spies...

„Terror Keep” is a 1927 Edgar Wallace thriller featuring perhaps the most memorable of all Wallace’s heroes, Mr. J. G. Reeder. Reeder is at pains to point out that he is not a detective, which is technically...

This unique thriller collection contains the 24 short vintage crime stories – a complete series featuring Police Constable Lee of the London „D” Division, written by the great Edgar Wallace. P.-C. Lee...

Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud...

A really top-notch literary thriller from Edgar Wallace. The story is set in Russia and England around the time of WW1. We follow a 22-year-old man on his first assignment for a Russian-English oil company...

Un roman à découvrir dans une édition spécialement adaptée aux lecteurs dyslexiques.   À l'époque des Précieuses en 1661, Mlle de Sévigné, fille de Madame et âgée de 16 ans, fait son entrée à la Cour....

„Fighting Snub Reilly” is one of the mystery story from collection which includes eight short mysteries by Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. There are others: „Jimmy’s Brother”,...

Nacht für Nacht Im Herrenhaus von Monks Hall hört man Orgelmusik. Über das Anwesen geistert eine Gestalt in einer schwarzen Mönchskutte. Nachts, wenn der unheimliche Mönch umgeht und sich seine Opfer...

Le jour, Gwen est une personne tout ce qu'il y a de plus ordinaire : elle a un emploi précaire à la bibliothèque de la ville, un mari aimant et deux beaux enfants. Mais chaque nuit, elle est fée et travaille...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films...

A collection of Filipino expats’ reminiscences–especially during the writers’ growing-up-into-adulthood years–primarily of home and hometown, but having Filipino cooking as the unifying thread: favorite...

Set against the seismic events of the twentieth century, "The Magic of Believing" is an inspiring family memoir of hardship, courage, hope and triumph. In 1940, as bombs fell on London, Charlotte Lillian...

Further collection of 24 war-time short stories about Smithy, the soldier and his comrades Nobby and Spud in the British army before WWI. This is the second anthology in Wallace’s „Smithy” series in which...

Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another man’s body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer,...

Kurz vor Hanna Shaw Tod konnte sie noch einen verzweifelten Hilferuf absenden. Die Haushälterin des Anwalts Gordon Cardew Hanna Shaw wird in einem von innen verschlossenen Raum gefunden wurde."Hanna Shaw...

The book consists of 10 short stories about Tam a brilliant Scottish pilot, a thriller novel fan, socialist and cigar addict. The stories of Tam the pilot are not mysteries. Tam’s dialogue is written...

Der Kleinkriminelle Poltavo tritt in die Dienste eines geheimnisvollen Manns, welcher sich hinter einem schwarzen Schleier verbirgt und sich schlicht Mr. Brown nennt. Der zwielichtige Poltavo hat ehrgeizige...

Amid a revival of apologetics, "few things could be more useful than an acquaintance with how Christian faith was defended down through the ages," say the editors in their introduction to this two-part...

Edgar Wallace’s humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us about the every-day life of the soldiers...