Edgar Wallace

A plaque honoring Edgar Wallace hangs on a wall in Fleet Street; in the eighties, an establishment called the Edgar Wallace Pub existed for several years.

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tales that have the insane strange qualities of say, an Ed Wood movie, a 1940's PRC quickie or a badly dubbed Edgar Wallace "krimi" from the 1960's.... you want Teufelswerk? i'll give ya some o' dat Teufelswerk, buddy!

Datajunkie ist Teufelswerk! hyperdave 2005

tales that have the insane strange qualities of say, an Ed Wood movie, a 1940's PRC quickie or a badly dubbed Edgar Wallace "krimi" from the 1960's.... you want Teufelswerk? i'll give ya some o' dat Teufelswerk, buddy!

Archive 2005-09-01 hyperdave 2005

The Four Just Men, by Edgar Wallace, read by Bill Homewood 4½hrs unabridged, Naxos, £16.99Four men sit around a café table in Cadiz discussing business – the business of murder.

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – reviews 2011

But on the same shelves there are other books – the pulp fiction thrillers of Edgar Wallace; the schlocky master criminal Fantômas novels; a David Lodge; an unread Ulysses.

New Europe: Juan Miró, a titan of art whose presence is still felt 2011

As Edgar Wallace tells it in his short novel, in the early years of the last century, this fearsome foursome -- George Manfred, Leon Gonsalez, Raymond Poiccart, and a man known simply as Thery -- assassinated the leader of the Servian Regicides, shot a "poet-philosopher" whose sick thinking corrupted a generation of young people, and hanged a leader of the French Army in the Place de la Concorde.

Jesse Kornbluth: They're Not Cops. But They Kill For Justice. They're 'The Four Just Men' Jesse Kornbluth 2011

Edgar Wallace held a contest when he published this novel, offering 500 pounds -- not a small sum in 1905 -- for the correct answers to some esoteric questions about the ending.

Jesse Kornbluth: They're Not Cops. But They Kill For Justice. They're 'The Four Just Men' Jesse Kornbluth 2011

On that morally uncertain but dramatically delicious boast rests the second of Edgar Wallace's titles that the world should remember -- and relish.

Jesse Kornbluth: They're Not Cops. But They Kill For Justice. They're 'The Four Just Men' Jesse Kornbluth 2011

"You've forgotten the thrillers!" he shouts to them, and then throws his copies of books by Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, etc. out of the window down to the garden below.

Archive 2010-09-01 David McDuff 2010

"You've forgotten the thrillers!" he shouts to them, and then throws his copies of books by Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, etc. out of the window down to the garden below.

The Pact and the Poet David McDuff 2010