Edgar Wallace: 852 books

Ein düsterer Herrensitz mit einem noch düsteren Familiengeheimnis. Hier wohnen Lady Lebanon, ihr Sohn Lord Willie, nebst Nichte, Dienerschaft und Sekretärin. Eines Abends hört der Diener einen Schrei, der Chauffeur ist ermordet worden. Scotland Yard schaltet sich ein. Verfilmt mit Heinz Drache, Klaus Kinski und Eddi Arent. Null Papier Verlag

A classic of detection and adventure,mysterious behavior on the part of the tramp , Chicago gangsters...

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him via a conversation with the librarian Sybil Lansdown to Gallows Cottage and a meeting with Doctor Stalletti. Tommy Crawler, Bertram Cody's chauffeur, is also there. Arriving home, Martin finds Lew Pheeney...

ON the night of May 27, 1911, the office of Gilderheim, Pascoe and Company, diamond merchants, of Little Hatton Garden, presented no unusual appearance to the patrolling constable who examined the lock and tried the door in the ordinary course of his duty. Until nine o'clock in the evening the office...

Detective-Inspector James Sepping investigates the disappearance of man-about-town Rex Walton. Walton disappeared with a million pounds on the even of his wedding.

After a tour of duty overseas, the eccentric character Augustus Tibbetts (known as "Bones" to his associates) returns to London to embark on civilian life. In a series of loosely connected but consistently hilarious tales and vignettes, Bones inadvertently stumbles into a series of improbable but exciting adventures and too-good-to-be-true business ventures.

When Inspector Tanner is called in to investigate a ruthless murder at Mark’s Priory, the grand ancestral home of the Lebanon family, he quickly discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. The household is controlled by the family physician, the footmen behave more like guests than servants and...

Young Tim Lensman visits his old science teacher, Prof. Colson, who's grown wealthy by speculating on the stock market in a way that suggests hidden sources of information. Tim overhears a puzzling radio message, and Colson shows him some peculiar equipment in a room labeled "Planetoid 127."...

'Grace,' he said, 'I am going to apply the methods of the Four to this devil Stedland.' But the judge finds Jeffrey Storr guilty, not Stedland. As Storr's wife Grace leaves the court a foreign-looking gentleman introduces himself. He and his companion are friends of her husband. Justice has...

We follow a 22-year-old man on his first assignment for a Russian-English oil company as he becomes embroiled in intrigue and romance involving a beautiful Grand Duchess, American mobster Cherry Bim, and the influential Israel Kensky and his magical book of "all power". This unlikely cast of characters embark on an adventure full of twists and turns. (Goodreads)

Der reiche Gordon Stuart treibt tot in der Themse: Selbstmord? Mord? Dessen Testament wurde akkurat niedergeschrieben - auf seinem Hemd, das der Tote trägt. Wer ist die geheimnisvolle Erbin Clarissa? Und ein den Tod bringender Blinder streift durch Londons Gassen. Inspektor Holt geht dem Fall auf...

Horace Tom Tickler, der Ganove, war tot. Erschossen in einem fremden Auto, mitten in London, vor dem eleganten Gesandtschafts-Klub. »Wenn Sie wissen wollen, wer Tickler ermordet hat, erkundigen Sie sich bei Mr. Moran.« Das stand auf einer Karte, die an Chefinspektor Smith adressiert war. Der Inspektor hielt Mr. Moran schon immer für eine dunkle Persönlichkeit. (Amazon)

Als er nun auf einer aus Gras geflochtenen Totenbahre zum Dorf zurückgetragen wurde und die Frauen seines Hauses sich mit grünen Blättern bedeckten und Arm in Arm die Dorfstraße entlang den Totentanz tanzten, klang ihr Gesang nicht sehr traurig, und ihr Schritt war fröhlicher und lustiger, als...

Commissioner Sanders is called upon by the British Government 'to keep a watchful eye upon some quarter of a million cannibal folk, who ten years before had regarded white men as we regard the unicorn.' Written when world powers were vying for colonial honour, Sanders of the River encapsulates the...