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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 power. Wallace's investigations, his startling discoveries and his escapes from death make this one of the most exciting books ever written by Alexander Wilson.

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, terrorism and subversion in the British Empire, Nazi Germany and the tentacles of global organised crime.

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.

Gregory "le coco" est retrouvé dans un ruisseau, assassiné. Ne faisait-il pas partie, comme Crew "l'aristo", Pinto Silva, Lollie Marsh ou Selby, de la bande du Colonel Dan Boundary ? Aurait-il trahit les "associés" de cette bande qui achète à vil prix les biens de personnes dont ils ont découvert une vulnérabilité ?

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.

Pubblicato nel 1923 dal maestro del crimine Edgar Wallace, il thriller, ambientato in un castello inglese pieno di passaggi segreti e di nascondigli, si snoda con leggerezza e con suspense , un colpo di scena dietro l’altro, fino all’immancabile spiegazione finale dell’intreccio.

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.

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 The Just Men of Cordova, written in 1917, the Four move into the treacherous, aristocratic world of gambling, horse-racing and high finance. It seems that police services, even governments, have no power to control this world, where blackmail, poison and murder are commonplace. The Four, working outside the law, take it upon themselves to clean things up in their own way.

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.

Crissa Stone is a career criminal who has pulled a number of impressive heists by knowing how to keep her mouth shut and her temper in check. Still, as good as she is, she wants to get out of the life. All she needs is one last big score, enough to bribe her lover's way out on parole, setup a safe and stable new life, and get her daughter back. But things keep going wrong, like when her last two partners lost their cool and fought over the take instead of walking away $150,000 richer. The mess they made of the job and each other has put her on the run again.

It's been a year since professional thief Crissa Stone last pulled a job, and she's spent that time under the radar, very carefully not drawing attention to herself. That kind of life is safe, but it's boring, and it's lonely, and it's not very lucrative. So when Crissa starts to get antsy - and low on funds - she agrees to act as a thief for hire, partnering with a wealthy art collector to steal a truckload of plundered Iraqi artifacts before they're repatriated to their native country. But what's supposed to be a "give-up" robbery with few complications quickly turns deadly.

Half a million dollars in drug proceeds, guarded by three men with automatic weapons - for professional thief Crissa Stone and her team, stealing it was the easy part. But when the split goes awry in a blaze of gunfire, Crissa finds herself on the run with a duffel bag full of stolen cash, bound by a promise to deliver part of the take to the needy family of one of her slain partners.

Crissa Stone is a career criminal. A complete pro, she never works too close to her New York City home, rarely signs on with the same crew, and never rushes a job. These are the rules that have kept her from getting caught, from doing time. They're the rules her mentor and lover taught her, rules he didn't follow as closely as he should have. Now he's up for parole, and Crissa needs to come up with some real money real fast to help grease the wheels.

Dal maestro del crimine Edgar Wallace, un romanzo dall’intreccio complesso e affascinante, ambientato a Londra. Seguiremo le avventure della protagonista e dell’ispettore Dick Shannon, di Scotland Yard, fino agli inevitabili colpi di scena finali. Un ascolto di “evasione” che porterà in galera i colpevoli e vedrà premiati gli innocenti.

Mais où donc a disparu Oscar Trevor ? Les lettres de ce grand voyageur, expédiées des quatre coins du monde, ne parviennent plus à ses avoués. Serait-il devenu fou ? Enfin, sa nièce, Gwendda, reçoit une lettre inquiétante : derrière son contenu banal et rassurant, un appel au secours codé qu'elle seule peut déchiffrer.

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.

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.

Seeing justice done in your own way of thinking is not the wisest path to follow. However, it was indeed how one individual managed his life. He did it in such a way that criminals at all levels feared him, as did Scotland Yard as they tried to put a halt to his actions. The Yard itself hadn’t the slightest idea of what he looked like because this man, who came to be known as The Ringer, had a baffling way of disguising himself.