The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

by Edgar Wallace

This carefully crafted "The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Edgar Wallace — Each Way (Biography) King Kong African Sanders of the River The People of the River The River of Stars Bosambo of the River Bones The Keepers of the King's Peace Lieutenant Bones Bones in London Sandi the Kingmaker Bones of the River Sanders Again Sanders P.-C. Lee Series Four Just Men The Four Just Men The Council of Justice The Just Men of Cordova The Law of the Four Just Men The Three Just Men Again the Three Just Men The Earl of Nowhere Series Mr. J. G. Reeder Room 13 The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder Terror Keep Red Aces The Guv'nor and Other Short Stories Detective Sgt. Elk The Nine Bears Silinski - Master Criminal The Fellowship of the Frog The Joker The Twister The India-Rubber Men White Face Educated Evans Educated Evans More Educated Evans Good Evans Smithy Smithy Army Reform Opinions of Private Smith Smithy Aboard Smithy and the Hun Nobby or Smithy's Friend Nobby Smithy, Nobby & Co. True Crime Stories The Secret of the Moat Farm The Murder on Yarmouth Sands The Great Bank of England Frauds The Trial of the Seddons Herbert Armstrong - Poisoner The Suburban Lothario Crime Angel Esquire The Fourth Plague or Red Hand Grey Timothy or Pallard the Punter The Man who Bought London The Melody of Death A Debt Discharged The Tomb of T'Sin The Secret House The Clue of the Twisted Candle Down under Donovan The Man who Knew The Green Rust Kate Plus Ten The Daffodil Murder Jack O'Judgment The Angel of Terror The Crimson Circle Take-A-Chance Anderson The Valley of Ghosts Captains of Souls The Clue of the New Pin The Green Archer The Missing Million The Croakers Double Dan The Face in the Night The Sinister Man The Three Oak Mystery The Blue Hand or Beyond Recall The Daughters of the Night The Ringer ...

Genres: Mystery

36113 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 17, 2014

About the author

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 have been made of his novels, more than any other author. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.

He is most famous today as the co-creator of "King Kong", writing the early screenplay and story for the movie, as well as a short story "King Kong" (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime.

Reviews

[Ken Finlay]

I was a slow starter when it came to reading. Aged 11 or 12 I, off my own bat and for the first time, picked a book that I thought I would like to read - it was "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke, it was awful and it stopped my reading in its tracks. It was so dreadful that even five decades later it has remained stuck in my memory when many better books have faded.
A year or two later I really started reading and I got stuck into secondhand books - among those that were readily available were the many, many books by the prolific Edgar Wallace.
The Four Just Men and the Sanders Series were my favourites. I still dip into the Sanders books once in a while.
They are products of their time - the Sanders series can be seen as overtly racist or as a description of life under British rule in Africa at the time - and Wallace could really churn 'em out - I am sure that 'King Kong' was probably done in under a week, or possibly a couple of hours .... or ten minutes.
There are better writers but there are few with more titles (chronically living above his means Wallace sold copyright left, right and centre)
The four-star rating is more a remembrance of how Wallace and several other authors (Dennis Wheatley and Alistair McLean - secondhand bookshops were full to the brim with their novels) got me into a lifetime of reading. To be honest, a 2 or 3 star rating would be more accurate today, but you like what you like!

[RTME]

Some stories were good to ok, while others were just great. I did not read them all at once, only when I was in the mode or was waiting for another author’s new book to came out. Anyway, it was a change to read at first until I got use to the Epoque stile. I liked being able to image what it would be like to live at that time or imagine myself being in the story. This is why I gave a 4x stars (don’t give 5x starts that easy) because I have read other works from different writers (same Epoque).

[WR James]

Great value. The stories, by today's standards, would considered unwoke, but definitely no problem there, it's probably a plus. I love the stories about Africa, so un PC, they're like a fresh breeze on a hot day. The Four Just Men are also enjoyable, but a little contrived. Nevertheless, great value and stories from an age when literature wasn't so censored, as it is today.

[Macky]

BBC4. The Man with the Red Beard

[Babatunde Palomeras]

Highly cerebral writer. He added colour to the reading culture

[M.P. Conn]

Enjoyed every single word.

[Joerg]

We’re the humans and those phenomenon like violence or racism exist by themselves—regardless of race or color of the human. Sometimes, we’re wishing there would be no violence and attempt to repel or neglect it—but it’s there even though.

[Leigh Morris]

Didn’t finish