Edgar Wallace: 852 books

Settimo capitolo della saga africana di Edgar Wallace. Ne è protagonista uno dei personaggi principali, il tenente Tibbetts, detto "Bones", in trasferta a Londra. Lontano dall'Africa, alle prese col mondo della finanza fatto da piccoli e grandi imbroglioni, lo vediamo muoversi in un altro...

Scritto da Edgar Wallace tra il secondo e il terzo titolo del Ciclo africano, questo romanzo vede ancora una volta il commissario coloniale Sanders, sebbene solo sullo sfondo. Un'avventurosa ricerca di una fantomatica miniera di diamanti è il pretesto per continue sorprese tra Londra e la costa occidentale...

Colonial adventures in a 6 volume collection set on the „"Dark Continent"”. Sanders and Co. return to Africa (following the events in Bones in London) to bring the old Kings country under the Union Jack and to try and find what has happened to a missionary and his daughter. It is written in a...

MILITARY "crime" is not crime at all, as we law-abiding citizens recognize it. The outbreak in the Anchester Regiment was not a very serious affair; from what I can gather, it mostly took the form of breaking out of barracks after "lights out." But, explained Smithy, it got a bit...

„The Feathered Serpent” is a mystery-thriller novel penned by the remarkably prolific Edgar Wallace. A number of people receive threatening cards emblazoned with the device of a feathered serpent, a device that we later find is associated with ancient Aztec religion and with a cult that still...

Larry Loman is a member of the Criminal Investigation Department of New Scotland Yard. While on a special assignment in Asia he contracts a form of malaria that causes him to suffer character-changing bouts of amnesia for up to eight hours at a stretch. When Larry is assigned to deal with the Crime...

1929 short story collection by Edgar Wallace revolving around the demobbed soldier (WWI) Jack „Wireless” Bryce and his engagement by the law firm „Hemmer & Hemmer”. Operating on the fringes of lawlessness, Bryce uses his brains and brawn to protect a range of the firm’s more vulnerable and...

Dieses eBook: "Der viereckige Smaragd" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Aus dem Buch: "Mrs. Greta Gurden gestattete sich selten den Luxus über Beleidigungen nachzudenken. Sie war nicht philosophisch veranlagt,...

Edgar Wallace was a late 19th and early 20th century war correspondent, but he's best known today for his mystery novels, especially the J.G. Reeder series.

MANY years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the matter, was given an axe and a saw in the penal settlement—which was a patch of wild forest in the...

'Der Schwarze' treibt in London sein Unwesen, keine Bank ist vor ihm sicher. Gibt es wirklich eine Verbindung zu dem bekannten und reichen James Lexington Morlake, der eine luxuriöse Wohnung in der vornehmen Bond Street bewohnt? Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) war ein englischer...

Jim Bartholomew ist noch jung, aber schon Direktor einer Zweigstelle der kleinen South Devon-Bank. Die Frau seines Freundes Frank Cameron besitzt eine von zwei Kopien des berüchtigten Ringes »Die Töchter der Nacht«, der aus dem Louvre in Paris gestohlen wurde. Die Kopie soll aus Sicherheitsgründen...

SMITHY sat on the canteen table swinging his legs, and all that was best, brightest, and most noble in the First Battalion of the Anchester Regiment sat round listening. The glow of sunset lingered in the sky, but blue dusk sat on the eastern side of the barrack square; where, in the shade of the...

Ambrose Sault finds a quasi-scientific way to insert his soul into another man’s body before he is hanged for murder. The murder of Moropulos by Sault is a mystery in motive and deed. Twice a murderer, Sault is nevertheless a commanding figure and an appealing character. He is the center of a tragedy......