Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was a British crime writer, journalist and playwright.

Probably born in London, he was found abandoned at the age of nine days in Billingsgate by a fishmonger, who subsequently brought him up as his own son. His career started as a war correspondent for the Daily Mail in the Boer War, following which he turned his hand to writing crime thrillers at a prolific rate.

He died in Hollywood on 10th February 1932 of pneumonia while working on King Kong and is buried in Little Marlow, England.

Table of contents

1 Literary Works 2 Plays 3 External link

Literary Works

• The Four Just Men (1905)
• Sanders of the River (1911)
• Bones (1915)

• The Clue Of The Twisted Candle