Books with author Edgar Wallace

• Two of British author Edgar Wallace's mysteries are in this Kindle book: Mr. Justice Maxwell and Down Under DonovanMr Justice Maxwell (1922)Mr Justice Maxwell, a judge in Britain's Law Courts, was once asked by the Attorney General whether he was doing business with Mr Cartwright. 'No,' the judge lied – the start of many lies still to come. Meanwhile, two British men, both in need of money, are discussing a plan to find gold in Africa. But a woman proves to be a distraction. Down Under Donovan (1918)Gambling and murder are in the air in this mystery thriller.About The AuthorBritish author Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was reportedly the second biggest seller after the Bible in his heyday. He was a Reuters war correspondent during the Second Boer War and wrote thrillers to earn money. He later moved to Hollywood as a script writer and died while drafting King Kong. His crime novels include1. Angel Esquire (1908)2. The Fourth Plague or Red Hand (1913)3. Grey Timothy or Pallard the Punter (1913)4. The Man Who Bought London (1915)5. The Melody of Death (1915)6. A Debt Discharged (1916)7. The Tomb of T'Sin (1916)8. The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)9. The Secret House (1917)10. Down under Donovan (1918)11. The Man Who Knew (1918)12. The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman (1918)13. The Green Rust (1919)14. Kate Plus Ten (1919)15. The Daffodil Mystery or The Daffodil Murder (1920)16. Jack O'Judgment (1920)17. The Angel of Terror or The Destroying Angel (1922)18. The Crimson Circle (1922)19. Mr. Justice Maxwell or Take-A-Chance Anderson( 1922)20. The Valley of Ghosts (1922)

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 – 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. Joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and The Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books such as The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.

When Cartwright and Maxell visit the theater in Tangiers, Cartwright boldly liberates the Irish singer Miss O'Grady from her infamous surroundings, so angering the theater owner's son and the Spaniard Jose Ferreria. Then the news from El Mograb is good, so Cartwright leaves to arrange the necessary finance. In the Crown room of the Law Courts, Mr. Justice Maxell is asked by the attorney general if he is doing business with Cartwright. “No,” he lies.

• Two of British author Edgar Wallace's best-selling books are bound together in this Kindle edition: The Green Rust & The Man Who Bought LondonThe Green RustA thriller in which bio-terrorists threaten to release an agent that will destroy the world's corn crops, The Man Who Bought London (1915) King Kerry plans on buying London, starting with several shops on Oxford Street. En route, however, two shots ring out and King Kerry seems to know more about his would-be attacker than he's letting on. This is one of Wallace's best crime novels, later made into a Hollywood film by the same name.About The AuthorRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was the illegitimate son of an actress, adopted by a Billingsgate Fish porter named Dick Freeman. He sold newspapers in London at age 11 and joined the army at 21. He was a Reuters war correspondent during the Second Boer War and wrote thrillers to earn extra money from books such as The Four Just Men (1905). He failed in his bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool and moved to Hollywood to work as a script writer. While drafting the blockbuster film King Kong, he died from diabetes.Edgar Wallace Classics Include: 1. Angel Esquire (1908)2. The Fourth Plague or Red Hand (1913)3. Grey Timothy or Pallard the Punter (1913)4. The Man Who Bought London (1915)5. The Melody of Death (1915)6. A Debt Discharged (1916)7. The Tomb of T'Sin (1916)8. The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)9. The Secret House (1917)10. Down under Donovan (1918)11. The Man Who Knew (1918)12. The Strange Lapses of Larry Loman (1918)13. The Green Rust (1919)14. Kate Plus Ten (1919)15. The Daffodil Mystery (1920)16. Jack O'Judgment (1920)17. The Angel of Terror or The Destroying Angel (1922)18. The Crimson Circle (1922)19. Mr. Justice Maxwell or Take-A-Chance Anderson (1922)20. The Valley of Ghosts (1922)

Like most of the later ones even though this one is called "Sanders" it very much stars Lieutenant Augustus "Bones" Tibbetts. Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humor, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honors, Sanders and his assistants attempt to administer an uneasy peace in a climate of ju-ju and witch doctors, and all the while Bosambo, chief of the Ochori, watches closely. "Sanders" should be on the must-read list of every action-adventure junkie.

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 now changes his plans. Tarling and his Chinese companion refuse to become involved. They pay a visit to Odette's flat. In the hall Tarling meets Sam, convicted felon and protégé of Lyne. Next morning Tarling discovers a body. The hands are crossed on the breast, adorned with a handful of daffodils.

When the Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed FOUR JUST MEN, he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smokeroom and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerine leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart and Thery - FOUR JUST MEN dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice can not touch.

This unique collection of african novels has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. During 1907 Edgar travelled to the Congo Free State, to report on atrocities committed against the Congolese under King Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian rubber companies, in which up to 15 million Congolese were killed. Isabel Thorne of the Weekly Tale-Teller penny magazine, invited Wallace to serialise stories inspired by his experiences. These were published as his first collection Sanders of the River (1911), a best seller, in 1935 adapted into a film with the same name, starring Paul Robeson. Wallace went on to publish 11 more similar collections (102 stories). They were tales of exotic adventure and local tribal rites, set on an African river, mostly without love interest as this held no appeal for Wallace. His first 28 books and their film rights he sold outright, with no royalties, for quick money. Table of Contents:Sanders of the River (1911)The People of the River (1911)The River of Stars (1913)Bosambo of the River (1914)Bones (1915) The Keepers of the King's Peace (1917)Lieutenant Bones (1918)Bones in London (1921)Sandi the Kingmaker (1922)Bones of the River (1923)Sanders (1926) Again Sanders (1928)

Wallace had written the initial 110-page draft for King Kong over five weeks, from late December 1931 to January 1932. The movie was initially to be called The Beast, the name of Wallace's treatment. Wallace's own diary described the writing process for this draft as he worked with Merian C. Cooper. Cooper fed aspects of the story, which had been inspired partly by an aspiration to use as much footage of an abandoned RKO picture with a similar premise, Creation, as possible. Wallace then executed Cooper's ideas, the latter approving the developing script on a sequence-by-sequence basis. While working on the project, Cooper also screened various recent films for Wallace to put him in the right mindset, including Tod Browning's Dracula and James Whale's Frankenstein. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack were thrilled with the draft screenplay. However on Wallace's death, the 110 page script they were left with only a first rough draft, not a final and completed shooting script. the fragmentary nature of Wallace's script meant that the main, dialogue-free action of the film such as the jungle sequences would have to be shot first, as a showreel for the board of RKO. Ruth Rose, Schoedsack's wife, was brought in to work on to evolve the script. James Ashmore Creelman, who worked on The Most Dangerous Game screenplay, was also brought in to tidy up the script. The original Wallace screenplay is analysed and discussed in The Girl in the Hairy Paw (1976), edited by Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld, and by Mark Cotta Vaz, in the preface to the Modern Library reissue of King Kong (2005).In December, 1932, his story and screenplay for King Kong were "novelised" or transcribed by Delos W. Lovelace, appearing in book form as King Kong. It is attributed to Wallace, Cooper, and Lovelace, and originally published by Grosset and Dunlap. The book was reissued in 2005 by the prestigious Modern Library, a division of Random House, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and a Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, and by Penguin in the US. In the UK, Victor Gollancz published a hardcover version in 2005. The first paperback edition had been published by Bantam in 1965 in the US and by Corgi in 1966 in the UK. In 1976, Grosset and Dunlap republished the novel in paperback and hardcover editions. There were paperback editions by Tempo and by Futura that year as well. In 2005, Blackstone Audio released a spoken-word version of the book as an audiobook on CD with commentary by Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Harryhausen, among others. There were also German and Czech versions of the novel in 2005.In 1933, Cinema Weekly published the short story "King Kong", credited to Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell (1888–1940). Both Wallace and Cooper had signed a contract which allowed them to develop the story in a book or short story or serial form. Walter F. Ripperger also wrote a two-part serialization of the Wallace and Cooper story in Mystery magazine titled "King Kong" in the February and March issues in 1933.In 1959 a mini-revival of Wallace's work occurred in Germany and around the Eastern Bloc, and his eldest son Bryan relocated there for some time to edit and direct many of the string of Edgar Wallace B-movies and made-for-TV movies filmed in that country. These later became a staple of late-night television. In 2004 Oliver Kalkofe produced the movie Der Wixxer, an homage to the popular black and white Wallace movies. It featured a large number of well known comedians.There are more of Wallace's books still in print in Germany than elsewhere and his work has consistently remained popular.

Wallace had written the initial 110-page draft for King Kong over five weeks, from late December 1931 to January 1932. The movie was initially to be called The Beast, the name of Wallace's treatment. Wallace's own diary described the writing process for this draft as he worked with Merian C. Cooper. Cooper fed aspects of the story, which had been inspired partly by an aspiration to use as much footage of an abandoned RKO picture with a similar premise, Creation, as possible. Wallace then executed Cooper's ideas, the latter approving the developing script on a sequence-by-sequence basis. While working on the project, Cooper also screened various recent films for Wallace to put him in the right mindset, including Tod Browning's Dracula and James Whale's Frankenstein. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack were thrilled with the draft screenplay. However on Wallace's death, the 110 page script they were left with only a first rough draft, not a final and completed shooting script. the fragmentary nature of Wallace's script meant that the main, dialogue-free action of the film such as the jungle sequences would have to be shot first, as a showreel for the board of RKO. Ruth Rose, Schoedsack's wife, was brought in to work on to evolve the script. James Ashmore Creelman, who worked on The Most Dangerous Game screenplay, was also brought in to tidy up the script. The original Wallace screenplay is analysed and discussed in The Girl in the Hairy Paw (1976), edited by Ronald Gottesman and Harry Geduld, and by Mark Cotta Vaz, in the preface to the Modern Library reissue of King Kong (2005).In December, 1932, his story and screenplay for King Kong were "novelised" or transcribed by Delos W. Lovelace, appearing in book form as King Kong. It is attributed to Wallace, Cooper, and Lovelace, and originally published by Grosset and Dunlap. The book was reissued in 2005 by the prestigious Modern Library, a division of Random House, with an Introduction by Greg Bear and a Preface by Mark Cotta Vaz, and by Penguin in the US. In the UK, Victor Gollancz published a hardcover version in 2005. The first paperback edition had been published by Bantam in 1965 in the US and by Corgi in 1966 in the UK. In 1976, Grosset and Dunlap republished the novel in paperback and hardcover editions. There were paperback editions by Tempo and by Futura that year as well. In 2005, Blackstone Audio released a spoken-word version of the book as an audiobook on CD with commentary by Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Harryhausen, among others. There were also German and Czech versions of the novel in 2005.In 1933, Cinema Weekly published the short story "King Kong", credited to Edgar Wallace and Draycott Montagu Dell (1888–1940). Both Wallace and Cooper had signed a contract which allowed them to develop the story in a book or short story or serial form. Walter F. Ripperger also wrote a two-part serialization of the Wallace and Cooper story in Mystery magazine titled "King Kong" in the February and March issues in 1933.In 1959 a mini-revival of Wallace's work occurred in Germany and around the Eastern Bloc, and his eldest son Bryan relocated there for some time to edit and direct many of the string of Edgar Wallace B-movies and made-for-TV movies filmed in that country. These later became a staple of late-night television. In 2004 Oliver Kalkofe produced the movie Der Wixxer, an homage to the popular black and white Wallace movies. It featured a large number of well known comedians.There are more of Wallace's books still in print in Germany than elsewhere and his work has consistently remained popular.