The Flying Squad

by Edgar Wallace

The creek between the canal and the river flows under Lady's Stairs, a crazy wooden house inhabited by Li Yoseph - known to the police as a smuggler. The neighbourhood suspects he is rich, and knows he is mad. Mark McGill and the nervous Tiser arrive on the scene with Ann Perryman, sister of Ronnie. According to Mark (and confirmed by Li Yoseph), Bradly of Scotland Yard is responsible for Ronnie's death. Then Li Yoseph disappears...

Genres: Mystery, Crime, Novels

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1928

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

[Alonzo Church · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hero is a copper, a terror to the drug dealing underworld, who disrupts the networks of drug smuggling through the flying squad. Heroine is a well bred young lady of the right sort who, nevertheless, works for the drug smugglers. She’s bitter, you see, because she thinks Hero killed her brother in a drug raid. Of course they love each other, how could they not? They are both total lunkheads. Heroine thinks those bags of white powder she moves are saccharine. Hero just sees a pretty figure and a sassy attitude, and destroys evidence and does the other stupid stuff a gaga copper does to protect his woman. Now, if she would only stop thinking she hates him.

There are other plot elements involving dirty lawyers, and Scooby-Doo level hauntings. They don’t amount to much. This is the tale of two people who brave impossible odds and common sense to find each other, marry, and run a plantation in Brazil.

I have read good Edgar Wallace. This isn’t it.

[Eduardo Garcia-Gaspar · Rating 2 out of 5]

Una complicada historia con una subtrama de amor sacada de la manga, una heroína con poca gracia, un policía sin personalidad, un mafioso nervioso y otro calmado, junto con un personaje desaparecido, forman una novela que no resulta tan recomendable como otras del autor.

[db · Rating 3 out of 5]

it started really good but got bad at the end it had so much potential but the story wasn’t written well

[Nathan Herat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Takes a while to get going

[Steven Heywood · Rating 4 out of 5]

A briskly written adventure story, the psychological torment elements raising it above the risk of being a romantic pot-boiler.

[Tom Kilgore · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Kati · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book made very little sense. It just ran in circles, very little actually happened. And Anna... good grief, she was so naive, no, stupid is a better word. She loved to play at being a smuggler - yet it was all a game to her, it's like she never really understood that she was doing unlawful things and when she was arrested, she was actually surprised that she could end up in jail. Her idiocy hurt! And then Bradley mentioned Brasil and that's when the book totally jumped the shark. Wow. What was even the point of it?

[Neil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical fun from Edgar Wallace, this time with a girl mixed up with a gang of drug smugglers. Not a whoduit but there is a reveal at the end, but it was blatantly obvious and rather silly.

[Amber]

A.L. Burt, 1928

[Leslie · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a suspense story than a mystery. Good quick read.

[Sarah Sammis · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Alexis · Rating 5 out of 5]

very enjoyable, although is a reflection of the time in which it was written.