Il use souvent de tous les poncifs de la litterature populaire du xixe siecle, mais ses meilleurs romans, menees tambour battant, offrent une succession presque ininterrompue d'actions et de revirements. Nombre d'entre eux sont adaptes au cinema, dont Red Aces (1929) et The Squeaker (1930), par les soins de Wallace lui-meme en tant que realisateur et scenariste. En outre, il ecrit, monte et produit une vingtaine de pieces dans un theatre dont il est proprietaire."

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The Hand of Power aka The Proud Sons Of RagusaDr Joshua Laffin wants Betty Carew, whose childhood he tortured with fear, to advertise a desk for sale. For four hours each day she is to sit at it pretending to write, in a shop window laid out like a study. While she acts this role she is told to wait for someone to approach her. Pawter of Pawter Intensive Publicity Services wants Bill Holbrook to find out more. Bill suspects trouble. He claims someone told him that the desk was invented by a butler who was hanged for murdering his wife...

La Main dans l'ombre

Harry Stone, dit "Harry le larbin" est renvoyé de la police de Rhodésie pour malversations. Il part alors à Cape Town à la recherche de Lew Daney, véritable tueur et cambrioleur de banques réputé, opérant dans la région, pour lui proposer ses services.

Une série de cambriolages et de meurtres vont suivre. 

Le capitaine Jordan, homme riche, qui connaît bien ses deux hommes, est lui aussi de retour en Angleterre, s'installe au Carlton, puis entre en contact avec Benjamin Awkwright qui gère sa fortune. 



Imbroglios, mensonges, trahisons, exploits rocambolesques, retournements inattendus, des rougeurs de jeunes filles... avec l'art d'exploiter les fils du suspens, de l'angoisse et du thriller, Edgar Wallace nous invite à la découverte de la brume londonienne comme du mystère écossais et ses demeures ancestrales. Un charme si british que seul Wallace sait rendre si dépaysant et en même temps si proche de nous. Ou tout l'art d'écrire le polar « à l'anglaise ». 



Edgar Wallace est notamment connu pour avoir participer à l'écriture du scénario de King Kong (1933). Ses policiers et ses romans d'aventure ont été traduits dans 44 langues et se sont vendus à plus de 100 millions d'exemplaires.

L’homme du Carlton [édition intégrale revue et mise à jour]

Chick : À la place de Chick, que feriez-vous ? Imaginez-vous employé d’une compagnie d’assurance, à cinq livres par semaine, loger dans une pension modeste où réside aussi Gwenda, une actrice au chômage… Et vous vous en trouvez fort bien.Mais voilà ! Votre vieil oncle misanthrope meurt soudainement en apprenant que sa pétition en vue de relever le titre de ses ancêtres est acceptée. Son héritier, c’est vous ! Vous voici un Lord ! Mais un marquis de Pelbourough, sans fortune et employé d’assurances, n’est-ce pas une sorte de monstruosité sociale ? Comment allez-vous, simple employé, devenir un Lord ? Comment vous comporter ? Vous habiller ? Que faire de vos journées ?Heureusement qu’il y a Gwenda ! Elle prend les choses en main… Mais Chick se trouve confronté, dans sa naïveté, à des situations de plus en plus rocambolesques. Et peut-être n’est-il pas si bête ? Un pur délice de Wallace.

Chick

MILITARY "crime" is not crime at all, as we law-abiding citizens recognize it.

The outbreak in the Anchester Regiment was not a very serious affair; from what I can gather, it mostly took the form of breaking out of barracks after "lights out."

But, explained Smithy, it got a bit too thick, and one of the consequences was that the guard was doubled, pickets were strengthened, and the ranks of the regimental military police were, as a temporary measure, considerably augmented. I explain this for the benefit of my military readers, who may wonder how it was that both Smithy and Nobby Clark happened to be together on Number One post on the night of The Adjutant's Madness.

Smithy

The Secret House is a 1917 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It featured the return of several characters who had appeared in his earlier success The Nine Bears.

The Secret House

A man stood irresolutely before the imposing portals of Cainbury House, a large office building let out to numerous small tenants, and harbouring, as the indicator on the tiled wall of the vestibule testified, some thirty different professions. The man was evidently poor, for his clothes were shabby and his boots were down at heel. He was as evidently a foreigner. His clean-shaven eagle face was sallow, his eyes were dark, his eyebrows black and straight.

He passed up the few steps into the hall and stood thoughtfully before the indicator. Presently he found what he wanted. At the very top of the list and amongst the crowded denizens of the fifth floor was a slip inscribed:

"THE GOSSIP'S CORNER"

He took from his waistcoat pocket a newspaper cutting and compared the two then stepped briskly, almost jauntily, into the hall, as though all his doubts and uncertainties had vanished, and waited for the elevator. His coat was buttoned tightly, his collar was frayed, his shirt had seen the greater part of a week's service, the Derby hat on his head had undergone extensive renovations, and a close observer would have noticed that his gloves were odd ones.

He walked into the lift and said, "Fifth floor, " with a slight foreign accent.

He was whirled up, the lift doors clanged open and the grimy finger of the elevator boy indicated the office. Again the man hesitated, examining the door carefully. The upper half was of toughened glass and bore the simple inscription:

"THE GOSSIP'S CORNER.

KNOCK."

Obediently the stranger knocked and the door opened through an invisible agent, much to the man's surprise, though there was nothing more magical about the phenomenon than there is about any electrically controlled office door.

He found himself in a room sparsely furnished with a table, a chair and a few copies of papers. An old school map of England hung on one wall and a Landseer engraving on the other. At the farthermost end of the room was another door, and to this he gravitated and again, after a moment's hesitation, he knocked.

"Come in, " said a voice.

He entered cautiously.

The room was larger and was comfortably furnished. There were shaded electric lamps on either side of the big carved oak writing-table. One of the walls was covered with books, and the litter of proofs upon the table suggested that this was the sanctorum.

Richard Horacio Edgar Freeman est un ecrivain et journaliste britannique, egalement scenariste et realisateur de cinema. Il est l'auteur de nombreux romans policiers et recits d'aventures publies sous le pseudonyme de Edgar Wallace."

Étrange Expiation

Das Werk "Sanders" ist ein 1951 veröffentlichter Afrikaroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet "Sanders".

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.

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