The Green Rust
Edgar Wallace
eBook
(Pearl Necklace Books, May 22, 2014)
• 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)