Das Werk "Bosambo von Monrovia" ist ein 1926 veröffentlichter Afrikaroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet "Bosambo Of The River".

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (geboren 1. April 1875 in Greenwich, London; gestorben 10. Februar 1932 in Hollywood, Kalifornien) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Journalist und Dramatiker. Wallace gehört zu den erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Kriminalschriftstellern.

Bosambo von Monrovia

ON the night of May 27, 1911, the office of Gilderheim, Pascoe and Company, diamond merchants, of Little Hatton Garden, presented no unusual appearance to the patrolling constable who examined the lock and tried the door in the ordinary course of his duty. Until nine o'clock in the evening the office had been occupied by Mr. Gilderheim and his head clerk, and a plain-clothes officer, whose duty was to inquire into unusual happenings, had deemed that the light in the window on the first floor fell within his scope, and had gone up to discover the reason for its appearance. The 27th was a Saturday, and it is usual for the offices in Hatton Garden to be clear of clerks and their principals by three at the latest.

The Melody of Death

The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prisoner, marshalled his papers with the precision and method which old men display in tense moments such as these. He gathered them together, white paper and blue and buff and stacked them in a neat heap on a tiny ledge to the left of his desk. Then he took his pen and wrote a few words on a printed paper before him.

Another breathless pause and he groped beneath the desk and brought out a small square of black silk and carefully laid it over his white wig. Then he spoke:

"James Meredith, you have been convicted after a long and patient trial of the awful crime of wilful murder. With the verdict of the jury I am in complete agreement. There is little doubt, after hearing the evidence of the unfortunate lady to whom you were engaged, and whose evidence you attempted in the most brutal manner to refute, that, instigated by your jealousy, you shot Ferdinand Bulford. The evidence of Miss Briggerland that you had threatened this poor young man, and that you left her presence in a temper, is unshaken. By a terrible coincidence, Mr. Bulford was in the street outside your fiancée's door when you left, and maddened by your insane jealousy, you shot him dead.

The Angel of Terror

He is somewhat over fifty, a long-faced gentleman with sandy-grey hair and a slither of side whiskers that mercifully distract attention from his large outstanding ears. A high and flat-crowned bowler hat matches and yet does not match a frockcoat tightly buttoned across his sparse chest. His boots are square-toed, his cravat is ready-made. In short, he seems to be a rather harmless, somewhat eccentric gentleman. But it is fatal to underestimate Mr. J. G. Reeder ...

The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder

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Avec plus de 125 romans, une cinquantaine de recueils de nouvelles et plus de 25 pièces de théâtre à son actif, Edgar Wallace est un maître du roman policier et du thriller. Il nous livre ici un de ses meilleurs titres avec pour personnages principaux l'inspecteur Tanner et son fidèle second, le sergent Ferraby. Ils sont chargés de retrouver l'auteur des meurtres qui se produisent autour du fameux château des Lebanon... Les habitants des lieux semblent tous lier par un mystérieux pacte de silence, pacte qui va plonger nos enquêteurs au coeur d'une histoire palpitante.

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Quelqu'un a tué...

Big-Foot : Pauvre Gordon Cardew ! Veuf, ancien notaire, il devrait profiter d’une retraite méritée ! Sa nouvelle passion, la criminologie, l’amène à fréquenter de brillants policiers comme Minter, dit Super, ou Lattimer, son adjoint. Sa secrétaire, Elfa Leigh, le seconde avec efficacité. Une jeune femme charmante pense Jim Ferraby, le jeune procureur.Et Cardew possède une belle propriété, Barley Stack où son voisin, le richissime américain Stephan Elsen, est de bonne compagnie et sa gouvernante… Mais, voilà ! … sa gouvernante, justement ! Hannah Shaw, une femme corpulente dont la beauté… Hum. Quant à son caractère ! Pauvre… pauvre Cardew !Voici que Cardew découvre un billet menaçant, signé Big-Foot. Puis sa soirée est interrompue par un visiteur armé qui chante une étrange chanson espagnole. Dès lors tout se gâte. Meurtres, agressions et imprévus vont perturber la tranquillité des falaises de Pawsey-Bay. Super aura besoin de toute sa subtilité pour prévenir de nouveaux meurtres. Mais, subtile, malgré ses empreintes énormes, Big-Foot l’est aussi… Un excellent Wallace !

Big Foot

Das Werk "Bones in Afrika" ist ein 1928 veröffentlichter Afrikaroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet "Bones".

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (geboren 1. April 1875 in Greenwich, London; gestorben 10. Februar 1932 in Hollywood, Kalifornien) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Journalist und Dramatiker. Wallace gehört zu den erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Kriminalschriftstellern.

Bones in Afrika

"I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne."

Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober depths of those grey eyes of hers a light which would have warned a man less satisfied with his own genius and power of persuasion than Thornton Lyne.

He was not looking at her face. His eyes were running approvingly over her perfect figure, noting the straightness of the back, the fine poise of the head, the shapeliness of the slender hands.

He pushed back his long black hair from his forehead and smiled. It pleased him to believe that his face was cast in an intellectual mould, and that the somewhat unhealthy pastiness of his skin might be described as the "pallor of thought."

The Daffodil Mystery

When John Flack, a notorious criminal mastermind, escapes from Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, life becomes dangerous for Mr. J. G. Reeder. So Mr. Reeder is quite glad, when the woman he loves leaves London and takes a job as a secretary at Larme Keep, a noble boarding house near the coast. But there are strange things going on in the Keep ...

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