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Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s. Presented here are full-cast adaptations of four of his classic crime novels, readings of four short detective stories, and vintage recording of Wallace reading one of his own stories. Tying them all together is linking commentary from Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much?, a documentary celebration of his life.

Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous chief of the Secret Service, finds that the peace of Europe is threatened by a gang engaged in the theft and sale of national secrets. Wallace gets busy and is assisted by the gang leader's own fear of him, as well as his anxiety to get the Englishman into his...

Sir Leonard is not a man to desire fame or notoriety. His chronicler has been forced to fall back on office records and information supplied by various members of the secret service, to tell of the struggles of Wallace and his intelligence officers: of their battles against the Soviet Union...

Edgar Wallace’s classic vigilante detective series The Four Just Men – involving four wealthy and resourceful individuals determined to take the law into their own hands – has maintained its popularity for over a century In this, the opening volume, the mysterious Four Just Men punish by death those who are beyond the reach of the law. When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon’s proposed Aliens Extradition Bill threatens the safety of a Spanish resistance leader, the men warn Sir Sir Philip that he must either withdraw the legislation, or face death.

A collection of 24 short stories from the prolific British writer Edgar Wallace, exploring the adventures of the astute and phlegmatic Police Constable Lee of the Metropolitan Police, as he performs his duties among the varied and colourful criminal characters inhabiting the Notting Dale Division.

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see...

Upon returning home from a hellacious combat deployment, Sergeant Jake Bedford struggles with severe PTSD. His only comfort lies in the loving arms of his young wife, Michelle. But when Michelle is brutally murdered in a random gang initiation, Jake's dream of settling down and starting a family are ripped apart. Unable to cope, and having no faith in a broken judicial system, he takes matters into his own hands. Jake uses his SpecialOps training to meticulously hunt his wife's killers while evading authorities.

Sir Leonard is not a man to desire fame or notoriety. His chronicler has been forced to fall back on office records and information supplied by various members of the secret service, to tell of the struggles of Wallace and his intelligence officers and their battles against the Soviet Union...

The sensational novel which launched Collins’ Detective Story Club in 1929 was by Edgar Wallace, who wrote more crime stories in the 1920s, and more films, than any other author. This new edition of The Terror, with its original jacket artwork, also includes another classic Wallace text, White Face. A dangerous gang of criminals is imprisoned after a daring robbery, although the ringleader who masterminded the crime disappears with the loot.

Chief of the Intelligence Department Sir Leonard Wallace - bearing always the hall mark of coolness and wit - is up to his earlobes in trouble. Summoned by the Viceroy of India, he makes a rapid flight to India to investigate the mysterious death of British officer Major Elliot and the theft of...

When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed 'Four Just Men', he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerin leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart, and Thery, the Four Just Men dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice can not touch.

John Stuart Tapscott, after service to the Confederacy and his home state of Virginia, heads westward to find a life that doesn't resemble a mockery of everything he's ever known. After brief stops, he finds himself an adopted member of a small band of Osage that have wandered to Texas. A series of events thereafter display the necessity to him of his leaving his new family and trekking further.

Lieutenant Dan Welko of Seattle PD is a no-nonsense, highly respected detective. He brings his own kind of justice to his city and it works well. He has the drug gangs and organized crime following his rules, if they want to do business. Till a new team of serial killers come to town testing Dan and his resources. One an apprentice, the other the mentor who believes they are the next Ripper. With his two oldest friends at his side he must survive attacks at every turn all while having the woman of his dreams tear all his walls down.

Immer wenn in der Unterwelt gestohlene Waren verhökert werden sollen, meldet sich der Zinker, um diese zu Tiefstpreisen an sich zu reißen. Falls die Diebe auf sein Angebot nicht eingehen, "verzinkt" er diese an Scotland Yard. Ein aktenkundiger Unterweltler hat dem großen Unbekannten jedoch eine Falle gestellt und kennt seine Identität. Kurz bevor er den Zinker verraten kann, wird er aber eiskalt ermordet.

Oberst Morris Black hat nicht den besten Ruf in der Finanzwelt. Black ist das, was man heute eine "Heuschrecke" nennen würde. Er kauft Unternehmen preiswert auf und verkauft sie gewinnbringend weiter. Allerdings kommen immer wieder dabei, zufällig, wie es zunächst den Anschein hat, seine Geschäftspartner ums Leben, sobald sie hinter seine Machenschaften kommen und sich ihm in den Weg stellen. Ganz gleich, ob es sich um Entführer, Erpresser, Mörder, korrupte Politiker, Ärzte oder Geschäftsleute handelt.

Jane ist frisch verheiratet und nicht sonderlich glücklich darüber. So mancher ist der Meinung, dass ihr ungeliebter Ehemann nicht ganz richtig im Kopf ist. Und eines Tages keimt bei ihr auch noch der Verdacht, dass er der "Gerissene" sein könnte – der berüchtigte Geldfälscher. Starke klassische Kriminalgeschichte.

Pubblicato nel 1922, questo “giallo” che fa parte della prolifica vena di Edgar Wallace dimostra, di fronte al lettore di oggi, tutta la sua età. Incoerenze, ingenuità, colpi di scena improbabili e sopra le righe, fino al surrealismo, che, però, fanno venire il dubbio (più che giustificato, se confrontato con le altre opere dello scrittore) che Wallace stesso abbia voluto ironizzare sullo stereotipo della donna “bellissima e spietata”. Ma soprattutto, dietro queste pagine, c’è tutta Hollywood, per cui Wallace ha scritto molte sceneggiature.

Brian Pallard è un giovane avventuriero senza scrupoli, uno scommettitore incallito, è il misterioso australiano che ha fatto fortuna in maniera equivoca e poco trasparente. Probabilmente è anche un donnaiolo impenitente, incapace di amare veramente una donna. Lord Pinlow è un aristocratico rispettoso dell'etichetta e delle convenzioni, un futuro padre di famiglia ligio ai doveri, un affarista ben inserito nella società che conta. È alla ricerca della definitiva affermazione, un uomo potente che rivela un buon fiuto per ogni genere di investimento commerciale.

"In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations." When a British politician pushes through a law that will allow political refugees to be sent back to their countries of origin, he becomes the target of the Four Just Men - a group of vigilantes who set out to the punish the people who consider themselves above the law.

A blackmail plot at the end-of-season wrap party for middling detective series Bankwood turns fatal - because another member of the cast has a plan of their own. The setting: a spectacular underground Masonic Hall beneath the City of London, with many tunnels, no phone signal ... and only one...