6/30/2023 0 Comments The ringer by edgar wallace![]() He soon found out that soldiering was not for him and was soon back in London, where he got a job as a crime reporter for the newly established Daily Mail. He worked a number of odd jobs in his youth before joining up with the army that sent him to South Africa. Despite living with a foster family, his extrovert nature meant he had a relatively enjoyable childhood. ![]() His mother christened him Richard Horatio Edgar Freeman and put him in foster care when he was just a week old. Wallace was born a bastard in Greenwich, London in 1875, the product of a union between two actors. ![]() Over 85 years after his death, his name is often invoked as he still towers like a colossus in the mystery genre. At the height of his powers, a popular claim was that he penned a quarter of all the books read in England. Doubling up as a crime writer, playwright, and journalist, he wrote over 175 novels, 40 short story collections, 24 plays, and numerous articles in journals and newspapers in less than 3 decades of writing. The Frightened Lady / The Mystery of the Frightened LadyĮdgar Wallace was a British writer and one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. Sergeant Sir Peter / Sergeant Dunn, C.I.D. ![]() The Clue of The Silver Key / The Silver Key ![]() The Square Emerald / The Girl from Scotland Yard The Black Avons / How They Feared in the Times of the Tudors The Angel of Terror / The Destroying Angel The Daffodil Mystery / The Daffodil Murder ![]()
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