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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.
After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George’s Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO. He died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes, during the initial drafting of King Kong (1933).
Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories, and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace’s work. As well as the creation of King Kong, he is remembered as a writer of ‘the colonial imagination’, for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions, and The Economist describes him as “one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century”, although the great majority of his books are out of print in the UK, but are still read in Germany.

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Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Wallace Edgar	A Debt Discharged	Ward Lock	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	Again the Ringer	Hodder	£2.50	vg		2nd
Wallace Edgar	Again the Three	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	Big Foot	Arrow	£2.00	vg-	1961	2nd
Wallace Edgar	Bones	BAG 21	£2.50
Wallace Edgar	Bones	Ward Lock	£2.50	vg+
Wallace Edgar	Bosambo of the River	Ward Lock	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	Educated Evans	Tallis	£4.00	vg+	1966	1st
Wallace Edgar	Flat 2	Arrow	£1.00	vg-	1980
Wallace Edgar	Lieutenant Bones	Ward Lock	£3.50	vg+
Wallace Edgar	On the Spot	Arrow	£2.50	vg		3rd
Wallace Edgar	Sanders	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Wallace Edgar	Sani The Kingmaker	Ward Lock	£2.50
Wallace Edgar	tcot Twisted Candle	Pan	£2.50	vg		2nd
Wallace Edgar	tcot Twisted Candle	Pan	£3.50	vg	1954	1st
Wallace Edgar	Terror Keep	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Avenger	Arrow	£1.50	vg	1973
Wallace Edgar	The Avenger	Arrow	£3.00	vg+	1962	3rd
Wallace Edgar	The Black Abbot	Hodder	£2.50	vg	1959	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Brigand	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Crimson Circle	Hodder	£2.50	vg	1962
Wallace Edgar	The Cue of the Silver Key	Pan	£3.50	vg	1954	2nd
Wallace Edgar	The Double	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Face in the Night	Arrow	£2.50	vg	1961	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Flying Squad	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Four Just Men	BAG 05	£2.50
Wallace Edgar	The Four Just Men	Pan	£4.50	vg+	1950	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Frightened Lady	Bag 08	£2.50
Wallace Edgar	The Golden Hades	Hodder	£2.00	vg-	1962	1st
Wallace Edgar	The India Rubber Man	Pan	£3.00	vg-	1952	1st
Wallace Edgar	The India Rubber Man	Pan	£2.50	vg		2nd
Wallace Edgar	The Joker	Pan	£4.50	vg+	1950	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Keepers of the King’s Peace	Ward Lock	£2.50	vg+
Wallace Edgar	The Last Adventure	Hutchinson	£1.00	vg-
Wallace Edgar	The Law of the Four Just Men	Hodder	£2.50	vg	1963
Wallace Edgar	The Missing Million	Arrow	£3.00	vg		1st
Wallace Edgar	The Mixer	Arrow	£2.50	vg-	1966	1st
Wallace Edgar	The People of the River	Ward Lock	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Ringer	Pan	£2.50	vg-		3rd
Wallace Edgar	The Ringer	Pan	£2.50	vg		4th
Wallace Edgar	The Square Emerald	H&S	£2.00	vg-
Wallace Edgar	The Square Emerald	Pan	£4.00	vg		1st
Wallace Edgar	The Squeaker	H&S	£1.50	g
Wallace Edgar	The Squeaker	Hodder	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Three Just Men	H&S 9d	£5.00	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Three Just Men	Hodder	£2.50	vg	1953	2nd
Wallace Edgar	The Traitor’s Gate	H&S	£2.50	vg
Wallace Edgar	The Traitor’s Gate	Hodder	£2.50	vg	1962	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Twister	Arrow	£2.50	vg	1966	1st
Wallace Edgar	The Valley of Ghosts	H&S	£2.50	vg-
Wallace Edgar	When the Gangs Came to London	Arrow	£2.50	vg		3rd

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