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Pallion entertained his three assistants to dinner at the Coq d'Or in the city of Toulouse, and the proceedings were both joyous and amiable.

At three o'clock in the morning it dawned upon M. Pallion that the occasion of his visit to Toulouse was the execution of an English malefactor named Lightman.

IT is not for you or me to judge Manfred and his works. I say 'Manfred', though I might as well have said 'Gonsalez', or for the matter of that 'Poiccart', since they are equally guilty or great according to the light in which you view their acts.

The most lawless of us would hesitate to defend them, but the greater humanitarian could scarcely condemn them. From the standpoint of us, who live within the law, going about our business in conformity with the code, and unquestioningly keeping to the left or to the right as the police direct, their methods were terrible, indefensible, revolting.

THE director of field information whose office is in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse pressed a bell on his table and a smart young officer appeared at the door and saluted.

Locally it was the Asylum. Only the oldest inhabitants could remember the furious controversy which had accompanied its building.

Every landed proprietor within miles protested against the outrage; there were petitions, questions in Parliament, meetings en plein air when resolutions were passed demanding that the Government should stay its desecrating hand; but in the end it was built.

And to the argument that it was a monstrous act of vandalism to erect an insane asylum with the loveliest view in Surrey, the officials concerned answered, reasonably enough, that even mad people w Merton Park Noir.

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Trasmere breaks with routine and informs his valet, Walters, that he is going out of town for a while to avoid an acquaintance from his past. One day he turns up dead, in a completely locked vault, the only clue is a pin found at the scene of the crime A newspaper reporter helps clear the prime suspect and reveal the identity of the true killer.

The Valley of Ghosts is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in Other Formats: Paperback.

Sanders of the River Mint Editions Nov The initial story was also adapted for film in and went on to become a critical and commercial success.

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Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format. The Angel of Terror Oct Angelically beautiful Jean Briggerland is a sociopathic criminal, so lovely that none can see her guilt -- even in connection with the most blatant crimes!

Can Jack Glover, best friend and lawyer to Jean's latest victim, bring her to justice before she murders her way to unspeakable wealth and power?

More Information. Anything else? Provide feedback about this page. Wallace embarked upon what was to be an ever-changing series of jobs and careers, the eventual list being impressive in its sheer variety beginning his long Fleet Street association at the tender age of 11 by selling newspapers at Ludgate Circus.

Wallace could turn his hand to almost anything, and it must be said, the vastly differing types of employment he undertook provided invaluable experience in his writing.

In the early 's he decided on becoming a soldier and in , serving with the West Kent Regiment, he was posted to South Africa, where the ominous rumbling prelude of the Second Boer War was already to be heard.

He rapidly became celebrated for his popular jingles and turned to writing poetry, pre-empting later soldier poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen During the three-year duration of the war, he even came into contact with the famous Dr.

To call his output prolific would be a colossal understatement. Reeder, a highly idiosyncratic P. Mr Jeremiah Golden Reeder was a civil servant, Chief Investigative Officer for the Director of Public Prosecutions, whose personal idiosyncrasies definitely tended to doff the hat towards a certain illustrious resident of B Baker Street.

Henry Arthur Milton was an acknowledged criminal but a ruthless killer for Justice, and, unusually for such a character, happily married to Cora Ann Milton, a Canadian lady of considerable intelligence and courage.

As to Edgar Wallace's style of thriller, he tended towards the mystery. Wallace stuck a passable middle ground whilst leaning towards the mystery as opposed to the more gratuitously violent thriller.

One character about whom Wallace wrote a great deal about was the aforementioned Mr J. Reeder, Terror Keep, Mr J.

Reeder Returns who could be more than passably compared to Sherlock Holmes. In the stories of Conan Doyle and his brother-in-law Hornung, women were either the victims or innocent bystanders, even including Irene Adler, whose blue-blooded paramour turned out to be an ignoble noble quite a step in a age where the public devoutly revered the monarchy.

He portrays this beautiful woman as vicious, without conscience and murderous, the only difference between her and her sire being her sanity, which was no improvement.

In one instance the villain actually dynamites a house in an attempt to kill him. Reeder also had that cold and aloof quality of Holmes.

Rather than having the man rely on elaborate and painstaking disguises which would have damaged his credibility as Milton was supposed to be a quick-change artist capable of fleeing the scene undetected , Wallace ensures that the Ringer, usually with the aid of only a bit of hair gel and change of clothes, manages to quite realistically kill the bad guy and elude the tenacious Inspector Bliss.

Even the finest rose garden, unfortunately, does have its weeds. Nevertheless Wallace cannot entirely be blamed.

Wallace was born into a renaissance for books. After plus years of the Dark Ages when science and invention were anathema, the ordinary people of Britain were finally hitting their stride as a literate class due to the educational improvements of the previous century and had an unquenchable thirst for fiction, the genres of which were ever expanding.

Wallace's contemporaries included Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne who practically invented the detective and science-fiction genres, their work ably continued and expanded by such luminaries as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.

Other notables included E. Hornung; G. W E Johns; E. Phillips Oppenheim; Baroness Emma Orczy. Besides this plethora of literary talent, alternative entertainment distractions were either non-existent or minimal.

There were no TV shows like Star Trek and Stargate, Friends and Frasier; no Sonic the Hedgehog; no Internet; no blockbuster big screen epics cinema was a strictly Saturday morning affair ; no leisure centres or cheap foreign holidays.

Opera, ballet, concerts and other such pursuits were the province of the wealthy. There was also plenty of time. A journey from Durham to Dover could take an entire day, horses and trams ruled the roost and a page thriller would nicely hold back the boredom threshold.

All the above factors guaranteed that any book on any subject was almost certain to be published. Perhaps all these factors allowed Wallace to be a little lenient with himself, and there was less of the strict editing and tightening up of a novel that occurs today before a book is published.

So, while the vast majority of his books such as the Just Men and the Reeder series are well-written, well-plotted stories, others have a tendency to contain long-winded dialogue, disjointed continuation and confusing plots.

Wallace appeared to have written some novels as if his mind had already moved on three or four books ahead, and they do suffer from this see Lieutenant Bones.

In modern parlance, thanks to du Maurier, Wallace had arrived and the impetus it provided also gave him the security to move on to new literary pastures.

For Wallace, such public success was essential, not just psychologically, but financially. Despite the poverty of his birth, Wallace had no hint of the miser,.

However, his flamboyance was the natural result of an extrovert personality and genuine friendliness, rather than the artificial poseur we see far too much of nowadays.

The bright lights of Hollywood beckoned and he happily obeyed their summons. So, of course, Mr J. In , this could, quite frankly, have been a blessing.

Regardless of the quality or lack thereof, transferring them from page to screen has repeatedly ensured the survival, or resurrection, of certain characters.

These characters are periodically reproduced in one medium or another fairly regularly and so the books inevitably undergo a surge in popularity in the public consciousness.

Conversely, many years ago Western writer J. Four young, vastly wealthy men from Europe gathered together to punish, sometimes by death, those who escaped the law.

Of the others, George Manfred was the exceptionally tall, black-haired Englishman; Leon Gonzales the handsome, baby-faced Spanish scientist and criminologist and Raymond Poiccart the large, stoic, Frenchman.

The man who most resembled the literary Poiccart was the late Alfred Hitchcock and doppelgängers for the other two are equally scarce.

Taking the solution of the makers of the recent TV adaptation of C. Although around thirty of his novels were originally made into films and plays, none have experienced the periodic, often beneficial, updates afforded to Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan and the rest.

For example, E. As has been said, Wallace was a prolific writer, perhaps only Enid Blyton outstripping his output; the sheer plethora of characters and settings provide something for everyone.

With the aid of three paternal nephews, Capt. Reeder, complete with wigs and make up to accentuate the family resemblance.