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Edgar Wallace. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12.
Edgar Wallace was a British writer and one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. 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.
Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories. Wallace was the illegitimate son of an actress and was adopted as an infant by a Billingsgate fish porter named George Freeman.
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Edgar Wallace christened Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born 1st April 1875 to actress Polly Richards. He was adopted at the age of nine days, by Billingsgate Fish porter Dick Freeman. He began his working life on Fleet Street at the age of eleven selling newspapers at Ludgate Circus. During his life he wrote many bestsellers. He made ...
He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, the Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals.
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Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) Edgar Wallace. Edgar Wallace was born on 1 April 1875 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for King Kong (2005), King Kong (1933) and King Kong (1976). He was married to Ethel Violet King and Ivy Maude Caldecott. He died on 10 February 1932 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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True Crime Ultimate Collection: The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries: Must-Read Mystery Accounts - Real Life Stories: The Secret of the Moat Farm, The ... England Frauds, The Trial of the Seddons…. by. Edgar Wallace. 3.76 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions.
