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The Device
255 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1962
About the author
Bryan Edgar Wallace
23 books1 followerThe son of British writer Edgar Wallace, Bryan Edgar Wallace was born on 28 April 1904 in London. He was named after the American politician William Jennings Bryan, who his father met and befriended on one of his trips to North America.
He studied mathematics and mechanical science at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and later became an enthusiastic amateur inventor.
He captained Britain’s bobsleigh team at Caux, Switzerland, in 1926 and during World War II he was diplomatic secretary to the British embassy.
In the 1930s he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing scripts with other writers. He was also responsible for adapting some of his father’s novels for the German cinema. In addition, a number of his novels were adapted for the screen.
Latterly he followed in his father’s footsteps (though nowhere near as prolific or as popular) as a writer of thrillers, writing one a year from 1961 through to 1966. His thrillers were, however, more appreciated in Germany, than in England.
He married his first wife Margaret Lane, who wrote a biography of his father, in 1938. At the end of his life he lived in the Touraine region of France at the Chateau de Champigny and it was there that he was buried after his death in America in early (12?) February 1971 in the grounds of the chapel reserved for the chateau owners.
At the time of his death he had just completed the first draft of his initial non-crime novel about the effects of the Russian Revolution on the lives of people living around the Gobi Desert; he had travelled to Outer Mongolia two years previously.
His crime novels were:
Death Packs A Suitcase (1961)
The Device (1962)
The Man Who Would Not Swim (1963)
Murder Is Not Enough (1964)
Murder on the Night Ferry (1965)
Murder in Touraine (1966)
He studied mathematics and mechanical science at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and later became an enthusiastic amateur inventor.
He captained Britain’s bobsleigh team at Caux, Switzerland, in 1926 and during World War II he was diplomatic secretary to the British embassy.
In the 1930s he worked as a screenwriter in the British film industry, mostly co-writing scripts with other writers. He was also responsible for adapting some of his father’s novels for the German cinema. In addition, a number of his novels were adapted for the screen.
Latterly he followed in his father’s footsteps (though nowhere near as prolific or as popular) as a writer of thrillers, writing one a year from 1961 through to 1966. His thrillers were, however, more appreciated in Germany, than in England.
He married his first wife Margaret Lane, who wrote a biography of his father, in 1938. At the end of his life he lived in the Touraine region of France at the Chateau de Champigny and it was there that he was buried after his death in America in early (12?) February 1971 in the grounds of the chapel reserved for the chateau owners.
At the time of his death he had just completed the first draft of his initial non-crime novel about the effects of the Russian Revolution on the lives of people living around the Gobi Desert; he had travelled to Outer Mongolia two years previously.
His crime novels were:
Death Packs A Suitcase (1961)
The Device (1962)
The Man Who Would Not Swim (1963)
Murder Is Not Enough (1964)
Murder on the Night Ferry (1965)
Murder in Touraine (1966)
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