Jedna z najbardziej znanych powieści kryminalnych Edgara Wallace'a, czterokrotnie filmowana i wielokrotnie wznawiana.James Beardmore otrzymuje list z żądaniem natychmiastowej zapłaty 100 tysięcy funtów ze znakiem Czerwonego Kręgu. Decyduje się jednak postawić mafijnej organizacji i nie płacić, mimo że było to jego ostatnie ostrzeżenie. Konsekwencje tej decyzji mogą być dla niego tragiczne. Wkrótce pojawia się więcej listów ze znakiem kręgu, a ostatnie wydarzenia wskazują, że ...

John Pentridge verliert im Spielkasino von Monte Carlo große Summen und wird danach diskret aus dem Haus gewiesen. „Heute abend habt ihr mich geschröpft, aber morgen bin ich wieder da und bringe genug Geld mit für große Einsätze! „ Tatsächlich gelingen ihm riesige Gewinne. Am selben Abend geschieht in Monte Carlo ein Mord. John Pentridge eilt nach London zum Pferde-Derby in Epsom...

Over her head hung the menace of murder – and; of the man who changed his name...Best remembered for penning the screenplay for the classic film „King Kong”, author Edgar Wallace was an astoundingly popular luminary in the action-adventure genre in the early twentieth century. „The Man Who Changed His Name” is a Robert Curtis’s adaptation of a screenplay by Edgar Wallace. This story packed with intrigue, mystery, murders, and it highlights Wallace’s unmatched skill in setti...

Eine Serie von Verbrechen macht London unsicher. Seit Jahren versetzt der unheimlich maskierte Chef einer Verbrecherbande, der sogenannte „Frosch mit der Maske”, London in Angst und Schrecken. An der Spitze der berüchtigten Bande, deren Mitglieder alle dieselbe Tätowierung tragen, steht der unbekannte und schwer fassbare Frosch. Als der zuständige Undercover-Polizist tot aufgefunden wird, übernimmt Sergeant Elk den Fall. Weder Inspektor Elk noch seinem Assistenten Sergeant ...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles in newspapers and journals. One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers spiced with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. He was known for the „The Four Just Men”, the „Ringer”, and for crea...

Forged notes have started to appear everywhere. Mr. Cheyne Wells of Harley Street has been given one. So has Porter. Peter Clifton is rich, but no one is quite certain how he acquired his money – not even his new wife, the beautiful Jane Leith. Jane, newly married to this man she does not love, is plunged into a nightmare of murder and madness. What is the secret of her husband’s immense fortune? Is he „The Clever One” who has baffled the police, the banks and the world wit...

„The Undisclosed Client” is a collection of short stories published between 1904 and 1929 from the British Mysteries’ master Edgar Wallace, directly from the Golden Era of the genre. Edgar Wallace was an English novelist, journalist and playwright, who was an enormously popular writer of detective, suspense stories, and practically invented the modern „thriller”. His popularity at the time was comparable to that of Charles Dickens. The stories are fast-paced, with good twis...

Edgar Wallace’s „The Twister”, published in 1928, is a tale of murder, high finance, and intrigue. Lord Frensham knows exactly who’s swindling him in the stock market – Anthony „Tony” Braid, who many call The Twister. And he’s not about to believe Braid’s crazy notion that his own nephew, his flesh and blood, is behind the embezzlement... Then Frensham is found dead in his office, but Inspector Elk of the Scotland Yard knows it’s not suicide, no matter the elaborate scheme ...

If you like a villain to be a proper villain then Oberzhon is the genuine article. What a villain! What an adventure! There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. When conventional justice fails The Three Just Men employ their great intellect and cunning. They use their own methods, carry out their own verdicts which the police were unable or unwilling to carry out. There can be no compromise. Each of the ten chapters in...

„The Squeaker” is a piece of early crime writing by author Edgar Wallace, first published in 1927. This novel is a traditional mystery, featuring some crooks and some policemen, a mysterious villain, a lovely girl and a plot with many twists. It is the thrilling story of a group of London jewel thieves and the company they keep. The title character is an omnipotent „fence” who has cornered the diamond-smuggling racket. The fence travels in polite society under the guise of ...

In 1919-1920 Edgar Wallace wrote a series of ten short stories featuring the investigative reporter York Symon for publication in the British monthly „The Novel Magazine”. In 1928 the series was reprinted in „Pearson’s Weekly”. In the following year Edgar Wallace collected nine of the stories in a book entitled „The Reporter”. „The Reporter” is a detective story about a police reporter named „Wise” Symon and his tricks of the trade. A collection presents 9 short stories tha...

„Angel Esquire” (1919) is a great crime story by one of the masters of the genre. This novella revolves around the hunt for an inheritance, or rather the word to unlock the safe where the inheritance is safely stored. A nasty old millionaire dies, leaving clues to the combination of his safe where all his fortune is hidden, to several people, and the race is on! Will the beautiful innocent young girl whose father was swindled by the millionaire get to it first? Or will the ...

Seventeen short stories featuring that master of disguise, Henry Arthur Milton, known as „The Ringer”. An exiting page-tuner full of intrigue and mystery, „Again the Ringer” is a must-read for all fans of thrilling crime fiction. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 – 1932) was a prolific English writer. During his lifetime, he wrote 18 stage plays, 957 short stories, numerous articles in newspapers and journals and over 160 films have been made of his novels. He was an imme...

This collection of episodes in the Commissioner Sanders series continues Wallace’s subtly humorous look at colonial Africa. In „Bones”, Wallace spins an engaging yarn about the adventures of an intrepid lieutenant as he travels through Africa on a series of life-or-death missions. When Commissioner Sanders goes on leave, the trusty Lieutenant Hamilton takes over administration of the African territories. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Francis Augustus Tibbetts, known...

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...

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...

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...