![]() ![]() ![]() Yet today he hovers like a ghost over the mystery genre, his name often invoked, but his books seldom read. During his peak it was claimed that one-quarter of all the books read in England were penned by Wallace, and he remains one of the most filmed authors of all time. One of the most popular writers of the early 20th century, and certainly one of the most prolific, Edgar Wallace turned out an astonishing 130 novels (18 alone in 1926), 40 short story collections, 25 plays, some 15 nonfiction books, plus journalism, criticism, poetry, and columns, in a little over 30 years. ![]() “That’s okay,” the caller remarked, “I’ll wait.” A friend was said to have telephoned him one day, only to be told that Wallace was writing a new novel. Back in the 1920s there was an oft-repeated joke about the British thriller writer Edgar Wallace. ![]()
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