Wallace - Libros y biografía

'The Daughters of the Night' follows Jim Bartholomew, an unconventional bank manager as his life is turned upside down. Thrust in to a chaotic situation with an ensemble of brilliant characters ,from...

In 'The Daffodil Mystery', Lyne a womanising shop owner sets out to frame a former employee for embezzlement for spurning his crude advances. Before his contrived plan can come to fruition however, he...

Jesse Trasmere is a penny-pinching miser with no faith in banks, instead he keeps his vast fortune in a locked vault at his fortress mansion. Rex Lander his dependant nephew is unhappy with his allowance...

'Double Dan' is a globe-trotting detective caper which takes us from the streets of London to the sprawling heat of Australia. Someone has been masquerading as our protagonist to abscond with huge sums...

In 'Angel Esquire' an eccentric casino owner on his death bed, proclaims that whoever can complete a complex cipher of his own design will be the sole inheritor of his vast fortune. The would-be benefactors...

Edgar Wallace was well-known for his passion for war fiction, no doubt inspired by his time as a journalist covering the Second Boer War. Wallace took his obsession with alternate realities to task in...

'The Book of All Power' takes place in the years before the First World War and until many years after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Malcom Hay, an engineer for a Ukrainian-English oil firm, comes...

Jérusalem, à l'aube du 1er siècle. Judah Ben-Hur, prince juif et marchand prospère, retrouve son ami d'enfance, Messala, qui est à présent le commandant des légions romaines. Sa fonction, à l'opposé des...

Édition enrichie (Préface, introduction, notes, chronologie et bibliographie)An 15. A Jérusalem, Ben Hur, jeune héritier d'une des plus grandes familles de l'aristocratie juive, est accusé injustement...

The Red Hand is a secret organization that specializes in blackmail and countless other subversive practices. In this novel, Wallace creates a reality in which all levels of society are intermingled into...

In the ancient Garre Castle, the dead walk again, the Green Archer hung in 1487 has returned...and he has killed again. The castle's reclusive owner refuses to allow anyone to investigate however, he...

'The Valley of Ghosts' squarely plants you smack-bang in the middle of a tiny close-knit aristocratic English town that is beset by more than just ghosts alone, as he is all too quick to discover. The...

To the world Maurice Tarn is merely the magnate behind a successful shipping company, little does anyone know that all the real money is made off the books in shady backroom deals. In a drunken stupor...

A psychological thriller, woven with fantastic characters and delicious plot twists that will leave you spinning. 'The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman' tells the story of Scotland Yard detective Larry Loman...

"I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne." Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober...

A man stood irresolutely before the imposing portals of Cainbury House, a large office building let out to numerous small tenants, and harbouring, as the indicator on the tiled wall of the vestibule testified,...

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a likeness to a caterpillar crawling from the south to the north. Standing on its red-and-white...

The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prisoner, marshalled...

Chick : À la place de Chick, que feriez-vous ? Imaginez-vous employé d’une compagnie d’assurance, à cinq livres par semaine, loger dans une pension modeste où réside aussi Gwenda, une actrice au chômage…...

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...

«L'Archer vert» recèle tous les archétypes du roman policier gothique: le château hanté, le pacte avec le diable, le mariage avec la mort, les bandits, l'usurpateur, le crime et le châtiment, personnages...

Le capitaine Michel Brixan du Foreign Office se voit confier par son supérieur Staines, la recherche de celui que l'on appelle «Le Coupe-Têtes». il se retrouve dans le monde du cinéma, le metteur en scène...

Many years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the...

Traduzione di "Again Sanders" (1928). Ultimo capitolo dei racconti con protagonisti il commissario Sanders e il tenente Bones. Aiutati ancora una volta dal capotribù Bosambo, i due militari inglesi sono...

Nono volume del "ciclo africano" di Edgar Wallace. In prima traduzione italiana. Continuano le avventure al quartier generale presso il Grande Fiume, nell'Africa Occidentale. Il commissario Sanders e...

Ottavo capitolo del "ciclo africano" di Edgar Wallace. Dopo aver lasciato i suoi compiti di commissario coloniale, Sanders è richiamato sul campo. Deve ritrovare un uomo e sua figlia sperduti in una regione...

Decimo capitolo dei racconti con protagonisti il commissario Sanders e il tenente Bones. Ancora una volta assieme al capotribù Bosambo, i due ufficiali inglesi sono occupati a risolvere situazioni pericolose...

An 15. Judah Ben-Hur, jeune héritier d'une des plus grandes familles de l'aristocratie juive, est accusé par le procurateur de Judée, Valerius Gratus. Cette accusation découle d'un accident. Il n'y eut...

Le Capitaine des âmes : Si vous espérez passer un bon moment à la lecture de ce Capitaine des âmes, en suivant avec délectation une histoire policière pleine d’action et de rebondissements, aux côtés...

Né en Virginie, Edward Tatham est confié à l'âge de 12 ans, après le décès de ses deux parents, à une branche irlandaise de sa famille. Très vite il les quitte pour aller à Londres où il exerce une multitude...