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Fifth book in the J.G. Reeder series. When Larry O’Ryan decides to become a burglar he attends night school to study ballistics, then secures a job at a safe-maker’s. After three successful robberies Larry is caught by Mr. J. G. Reeder. An unlikely friendship develops and on Saturdays they can be seen together at the British Museum or the Tower. One day Larry rescues Miss Lane Leonard, daughter of a millionaire. The disappearance of one and a half million pounds in gold bul...

J. G. Reeder is a shabby little man with red hair and weak eyes. However, his extraordinary mind is rapier sharp. „Red Aces” is the fourth and last of Edgar Wallace’s JG Reeder books, featuring the diffident sleuth with the furled umbrella in three novelette-length adventures. Here are three thrilling episodes torn from his casebook: „Red Aces” about a man who gambles high and lives in fear; „Kennedy the Con Man”, reveals the impeccable mask stripped from a fiend, and final...

As a prophecy of modern warfare, this book, written before the Great War, is distinctly remarkable, as well as having the genuine Edgar Wallace sense of thrilling narrative. The centre of the plot is the invasion of Britain in 1909. It could be a crime story, as it opens in the mean streets of working class Deptford in the opening years of the 20th century, and includes criminals petty and not so petty. It is also a war story, and includes a balloon air raid over London; an...

A collection of 23 stories from every-day life in the British military, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. Edgar Wallace, who is also famous for his own stories of colonial life – the Sanders stories – was principally a writer of crime and detective fiction. However, he was well aware that the irrepressible spirit of Kipling’s famous rankers would live on, and he wrote his own tales of ordinary British soldiers. Set at a later-and, when first published,...

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. Silinski is one of Edgar Wallace’s more over-the-top master fiends. He could teach Goldman Sachs and ...

The book is actually a collection of short stories that are loosely tied together by Sanders himself, his steamship and an unlikely African chief called Bosambo. In the jungles of West Africa, Commissioner Sanders is the highest representative of the British crown. The health and safety of a quarter-million natives who speak countless languages and worship untold gods are his responsibility. Whether disciplining a boy king, expelling troublesome missionaries, or fighting to...

The book consists of 10 short stories about Tam a brilliant Scottish pilot, a thriller novel fan, socialist and cigar addict. The stories of Tam the pilot are not mysteries. Tam’s dialogue is written phonetically and he is great fun and saves the rather silly pre-Biggles stories from being too ridiculous to be enjoyable. The characters are broad, the situations light, but the stories are exciting and fun. „Tam” is a real person, and all the adventures set forth have actuall...

Between 1904 and 1918 Edgar Wallace wrote a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms. Set at a later-and, when first published, contemporary time, and on a different stage, this substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving th...

Londyn lat dwudziestych ubiegłego wieku. Mgła, dżentelmeni i whisky.Młoda dziewczyna pracująca w biurze prawnym u pewnego sknery dostaje propozycję posady jako sekretarka księżnej. Nie ma pojęcia, dlaczego to właśnie ona została wybrana na tę prestiżową i lukratywną pozycję. Przyjmuje ją jednak z radością i zadowoleniem. Ale sprawy się komplikują, ktoś ją śledzi, ktoś chce ją przejechać na pasach… Ale kryminał!!! W starym, świetnym brytyjskim stylu. Są łajdacy i jest det...

Pan Trebolino, szef francuskiego oddziału detektywistycznego, szuka ciepła przy kominku w swoim gabinecie. Wkrótce będzie musiał opuścić przytulny kąt i wyjść na paryskie - wyjątkowo mroźne jak na marzec - ulice, by rozbić szajkę fałszerzy pieniędzy. Na kanwie książki w 1928 r. powstał film "The Forger".

Jedna z najbardziej znanych powieści kryminalnych Edgara Wallace’a! Po śmierci matki Audrey Bedford opuszcza wieś, w której zajmowała kurami. Przenosi się do siostry w Londynie i wplątuje się w przestępczy świat stolicy. Zostaje oskarżona w sprawie kradzieży naszyjnika finlandzkiej królowej i skazana na rok ciężkiego więzienia. Poszukując następnie zajęcia zatrudnia się jako sekretarka u niejakiego Malpasa – starca o paskudnej twarzy, mieszkającego w dziwnym domu pełn...

Magazyn jubilerski firmy Gilderheim przyjmuje właśnie wielką dostawę diamentów. Ponieważ światło w oknach pomieszczenia pali się dłużej niż zazwyczaj w sobotnie popołudnie, do drzwi magazynu puka policjant. Właściciel uspokaja stróża prawa. Mężczyźni wdają się w pogawędkę i po skończonej pracy razem oddalają się do swoich domów. Właśnie wtedy do budynku wkrada się złodziejski duet. Pierwszy ze wspólników przeciera szlak, chwilę później do gry wkracza jego kompan. Obaj są zdzi...

Milioner Comstock Bell znienacka pojawia się w Londynie i bierze pospieszny ślub ze świeżo poznaną kobietą. Tuż po ceremonii para podobno wyruszyła w podróż poślubną, ale tej samej nocy ktoś widział młodą mężatkę w rezydencji męża - była samotna i nie wydawała się szczęśliwa. Okazuje się, że Bell jest zamieszany w działalność szajki fałszerzy pieniędzy, zaś jego zniknięcie ma związek z dawną historią z czasów studenckich. Powieść dla miłośników kryminałów retro.

Zimowe popołudnie, wykwintne przyjęcie ślubne. W wystawnej sali kłębią się szacowni goście - bawią się rozmową, dowcipkują, oglądają prezenty przyniesione dla pary młodej. Wśród nich, nieco na uboczu, stoi milczący O. Rater, nazywany przekornie Mówcą. Tylko on może podejrzewać, że ten uroczy bankiet da początek sensacyjnym wydarzeniom. Zbiór dwunastu opowiadań Wallace'a połączonych postacią tajemniczego Oratora, który rozprawia się z najbardziej przebiegłymi przestępcami Lond...

Few people today would recognize the name „Edgar Wallace” but before his death in 1933 he was a literary force to be reckoned with. He was both prolific and popular and his books reportedly sold at the rate of 5,000 a day. This enjoyable collection includes eight mystery stories by Edgar Wallace: „The Lady Called Nita”, „The Man Who Married His Cook”, „Mr. Sigee’s Relations”, „The Knight Who Could Not Kneel”, „Her Father’s Daughter”, „The Dramatic Butler”, „Diana Helps”, „C...

The name, Edgar Wallace, threads through early twentieth century crime fiction like a stream that turns out to be a lot deeper and wider than you thought. This is one of his works. A thrilling tale of commerce and intrigue starring Barbara, god-daughter and Private Secretary to Mr. Maber. Unlike the old-fashioned Maber & Maber department store, the modern Atterman’s store is a successful, profitable business. At a take-over meeting Barbara gives Messers Atterman and Min...

Edgar Wallace’s humorous tales of British Army life, centered around the characters of „Smithy” and „Nobby”. The stories, collected in 1905, are supposed to tell us about the every-day life of the soldiers and are supposed to be, in turns, funny, moving, or even sometimes tragic. This substantial collection of the Smithy stories finds our incorrigible hero and his scurrilous band of confederates malingering, scheming and conniving their way through life in the British Army ...

Over a period of time, men disappear, and later their heads are found. Meanwhile a young actress in a small part in a film on location, is disturbed by the actions of the owner of the place where they are filming. A detective comes to investigate, and finds many puzzling things going on. Several of the characters are suspicious, in one way or another, and as the plot unfolds, it grips you. Edgar Wallace’s „The Avenger” is a perfectly fine example of what a page-turning thri...

„Terror Keep” is a 1927 Edgar Wallace thriller featuring perhaps the most memorable of all Wallace’s heroes, Mr. J. G. Reeder. Reeder is at pains to point out that he is not a detective, which is technically true. He is not a policeman, and has no power to arrest suspects. He works as an investigator of banking crime, particularly forgery. He is nonetheless the terror of the criminal classes. This time detective and his attractive secretary, Margaret Belman, almost suffered...

Further collection of 24 war-time short stories about Smithy, the soldier and his comrades Nobby and Spud in the British army before WWI. This is the second anthology in Wallace’s „Smithy” series in which the famous character T. B. Smith makes his appearance. Also Smithy’s pal „Nobby” Clark has now emerged very much as the main character in these, usually humorous stories of pre world war one British army life. These stories are more clearly set in the Boer war. While the f...

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, Sande...

With „Room 13” in 1924 Edgar Wallace introduced readers to Mr. J. G. Reeder, one of the least glamorous of all fictional detectives. Mr. J. G. Reeder is neither a police detective nor an amateur crime-fighter, nor is he a private detective. In fact he is employed by the Bank of England, and acts as a kind of consultant to Scotland Yard. This time Edgar Wallace’s unassuming investigator shares the limelight with a young and vigorous ex-con called John Gray. John Gray, a mode...

Edgar Wallace established his reputation as a writer of detective thrillers, a genre in which he wrote more than 170 books, with the publication of „The Four Just Men”. Moreover, the author was a wholehearted supporter of Victorian and early Edwardian values and mores, which are now considered in some respects politically incorrect. In England, in the 1920s, Wallace was said to be the second biggest seller after the Bible. „The Day of Uniting” by Edgar Wallace was originall...

Edgar Wallace’s novels always have an endearing quality about them that is not so easy to define. „Daughters of the Night” is hard to explain in a few words, but there are the usual Edgar Wallace characters: the hero, the heroine, the suspicious but beautiful woman who is somehow involved in the whole plot, the hard-faced and fiendish villain and a chivalrous one. Jim Bartholomew is a young manager of a branch of the South Devon Farmers’ Bank with a love of hunting, horses ...