„The Gambling Girl”, by Edgar Wallace is a book of short story mysteries. Bill and Mary met at a gambling casino and both are imprisoned for reasons that are murky. Bill was a former detective with the American Army at G.H.Q. Mary’s past was more mysterious. From that day forward however, neither of their lives would ever be the same again. Fast-paced, with good twists and turns, an unusual mystery scheme and a little romance. It’s all great fun and Wallace keeps the action...

„The Secret House” by Edgar Wallace is a mystery set about 1920 in England. Scandalous periodical „The Gossip’s Corner” is run by a supposed blackmailer whose identity has baffled the police. Inspector T.B. Smith of Scotland Yard, a singularly acute Assistant Commissioner, has got a lot to sort out. Introduced as an „eccentric”, though there is little evidence provided for this assertion, the characterless Smith tangles with dodgy doctors, dangerous criminals and a missing ...

During 1907 Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) travelled to the Congo Free State, to report on atrocities committed against the Congolese under King Leopold II of Belgium and the Belgian rubber companies, in which up to 15 million Congolese were killed. Isabel Thorne of the Weekly Tale-Teller penny magazine, invited Wallace to serialize stories inspired by his experiences. These were published as his first collection „Sanders of the River” (1911), a best seller. This volume, grouped...

Urokliwy, acz niebogaty młodzieniec, Juljan Lester, ma śmiałe plany matrymonialne wobec młodziutkiej Marji. Porywy serca są jednak studzone podszeptami rozumu, który nakazuje absztyfikantowi rozeznać sytuację majątkową potencjalnej małżonki. Dziewczyna jest córką przedwcześnie zmarłej hrabianki, która na łożu śmierci oddała ją pod opiekę swojej służącej. Juljan zgłasza się po pomoc do detektywa Johna Morlaya, który oficjalnie odrzuca zlecenie, ale wiedziony prywatną ciekawośc...

Jedna z najbardziej znanych powieści kryminalnych w dorobku Edgara Wallace'a, aż czterokrotnie przenoszona na srebrny ekran. Gdy James Beardmore otrzymuje list z żądaniem wysokiego okupu, postanawia nie dać się zastraszyć. Organizacja Czerwony Krąg niewiele jednak robi sobie z jego nieposłuszeństwa - w kolejnych dniach zasypie swoją ofiarę kolejnymi listami z czerwonym znakiem i brutalnie wtargnie w codzienność jego i bliskich mu osób. Wszystko wskazuje na to, że finał tych p...

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. Wallace’s „Sergeant Sir Peter” is a collection of stories about an aristocratic young man who becomes a Police Sergeant. Despite this conceit, this collection is much more realistic about life in Britain than many Golden Age works. The stories deal sympathetically with peo...

„Big Foot” is a 1927 crime novel by Edgar Wallace. This is one of the most significant of his works because of the character Sooper, a detective from Metropolitan Guard. Footprints and a dead woman bring together Superintendent Minter and the amateur sleuth Mr. Cardew. Who is the man in the shrubbery? Who is the singer of the haunting Moorish tune? Both Sooper and Cardew are anxious to solve the mystery of Big Foot, an ingenious murderer who always seems to stay one step ah...

More adventures of Edgar Wallace’s most popular characters, Manfred, Gonsalez, Poiccart, & Merrell better known to the underworld as the dreaded Three Just Men – dedicated to punishing those whom the law cannot touch, in England, Europe, and America. „Again the Three” consists of 13 short stories: „The Rebus”, „The Happy Travellers”, „The Abductor”, „The Third Coincidence”, „The Slane Mystery”, „The Marked Cheque”, „Mr. Levingrou’s Daughter”, „The Share Pusher”, „The Ma...

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. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. This comprehensive work presents a collection of nine short stories, primarily detective fiction of Edgar Wallace. These are largely adventure narratives with elements of cri...

„Fighting Snub Reilly” is one of the mystery story from collection which includes eight short mysteries by Edgar Wallace, a famous British author of mystery genre. There are others: „Jimmy’s Brother”, „The Christmas Cup”, „The Man In The Golf Hut”, „A Romance In Brown”, „The Perfect Gentleman”, „Kid-Glove Harry, „Nig-Nog”. Edgar Wallace was a British author who is best known for creating King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In to...

Edgar Wallace was one of the most popular and prolific authors of his era. This novel is framed as several witness’ accounts to a fictious journalist and starts as an entertaining adventure yarn with even some pirate episodes, but the story looses steam at the half-way point when it turns into a very predictable society novel. Wallace follows his passions for horse-racing and adventure, and the title character in all his generosity and extravagance is clearly autobiographic...

„Educated Evans” is the first novel in the ’Evans’ series. These stories combine Wallace’s talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. The eponymous principal character is a London racing tipster. Garrulous and delightfully ignorant of most of the subjects about which he professes to have knowledge, Evans provides the comic foil for the towering figure of „The Miller”, a formidable police detective named for his perpetual habit of chewing upon a length of str...

British novelist Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), was a Reuters war correspondent who wrote thrillers to earn additional money. He also wrote Hollywood screenplays and died while drafting King Kong. Wallace was a very prolific writer despite his sudden death at age 56. In total Wallace is credited with over 170 novels, almost 1,000 short stories, and 18 stage plays. Wallace’s works have been turned into well over 100 films. This early work by Edgar Wallace was ori...

Fleeing unfavorable regulation at home, American millionaire King Kerry and other American „robber barons” begin buying up London real estate and important London-based businesses, much to the dismay of their competitors and the people of the city. As his empire expands, Kerry is bedeviled by a mysterious enemy troubled by a dark secret from a past romance. Along the way we meet some good, honest people whom he brings into the fold and assists them to a better life, while d...

„The Little Green Man and Other Stories” is an excellent collection of mystery stories by Edgar Wallace. These are fast-paced, with good twists and turns, an unusual criminal scheme and a little romance. Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who produced popular detective and suspense stories and was in his time „"the king"” of the modern thriller. Wallace’s literary output – 175 books, 24 plays, and countless articles and review sketches – have u...

In „The Green Ribbon” an insurance investigator researches the accidental death of a jockey. His inquiry leads to an illegal gambling organization, as well as the knowledge that the jockey’s death was not accidental. He also saves the life of another jockey who has been the victim of a couple of accidents. One of Edgar Wallace’s occasional horse racing novels which centers of a betting syndicate involving the jovial Mr. Trigger, the sinister Dr. Blanter, the strange Mr. Goo...

This early work by Edgar Wallace was originally published in 1929. „"The Golden Hades"” is a tale of murder and a symbol on bank notes leading to a sinister organization. This mystery novel features Wilbur Smith of the Treasury Department for Counterfeit in his investigations. Each time a crime happens be it a robbery or a murder, there is a sinister sign of Pluto (Hades) gold there... a statue of the Greek god of the underworld and the sign of dangerous gang of forgers. On...

One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author, who created exciting thrillers with tales of treacherous crooks and hard-boiled detectives. Over the rest of his life, Wallace produced some 173 books and wrote 17 plays. These were largely adventure narratives with elements of crime or mystery, and usually combined a bombastic sensationalism with hammy violence. This hitherto uncollected mini-series of four delightful ...

One of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, Edgar Wallace was an immensely popular author. The Educated Evans stories combine Wallace’s talent for humor with his hallmark detective story themes. His story of Evans is full of amusing incidents of love and adventure set amidst the bustle and excitement of the racecourse. This continues the life of Evans, Edgar Wallace’s? cockney tipster and „"the wizard of Camden Town"”. Follow the loves, predictions and calami...

Przy zwłokach milionera Thorntona Lyne'a ktoś rozrzucił żółte narcyzy. Detektyw Tarling próbuje ustalić, kto stoi za zabójstwem i co oznaczają charakterystyczne kwiaty. Cień podejrzenia pada na dwoje pracowników Leye'a - Odettę Rider, która odrzuciła zaloty szefa i odeszła z firmy, oraz Millburgha, który prawdopodobnie dopuścił się defraudacji pieniędzy w przedsiębiorstwie. Śledczy wydaje się stronniczy, ewidentnie stara się uniewinnić kobietę. Czy słusznie? W 2014 r. na pods...

Wybredny Gilbert Standerton w wieku trzydziestu dwóch lat postanowił nareszcie się ożenić. Jego romantyczna dusza zapałała uczuciem do młodziutkiej Edyty na tyle intensywnie, że ignorował on oziębłość ze strony narzeczonej. W trakcie miesiąca miodowego mężczyzna usłyszy od swojej świeżo poślubionej żony, jakie były prawdziwe motywy jej zamążpójścia. Tymczasem w światku londyńskich włamywaczy pojawia się tajemniczy osobnik. W 1922 r. książka została zaadaptowana na niemy film ...

October Jones to zbuntowana młoda kobieta, po śmierci ojca oddana na wychowanie wujowi. Zgodnie z testamentem w dniu 21. urodzin powinna wyjść za mąż - tylko wówczas jej opiekun dostanie swoją część spadku. Krnąbrna dziewczyna, postawiona pod ścianą, wygarnia swojemu narzeczonemu, że wszyscy faceci są nic nie warci i równie dobrze mogłaby wyjść za przypadkowego włóczęgę. Urażony mężczyzna postanawia zemścić się na wybrance - niefrasobliwe słowa dziewczyny staną się rzeczywist...

Wallace was a prolific author responsible for several series of popular novels featuring bold adventurers and crime fighters. For his series set in the highly evocative world of West Africa he created two of his most beloved and enduring characters, Colonial Administrator Sanders and his eccentric companion Lieutenant Tibbetts, known to all as „Bones”. However, yet again, the trouble-prone Bones, while meaning to assist, only manages to spread his own unique style of innoce...

This is one of Edgar Wallace’s best and most exciting thrillers. Jack O’ Judgment is light-hearted, insouciant, masked mystery man, who sets out to expose a gang of daring crooks who are amassing millions regardless of their methods. Criminal mastermind Colonel Dan Boundary fights two enemies – Stafford King, a dedicated detective, and Jack O’Judgment. The tale opens with the murder of „Snow” Gregory, a drug lord linked with Boundary... This English detective story has an e...