Edgar Wallace is a English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. He wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and numerous articles. In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him.
He was known during his lifetime for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, The Four Just Men, The Ringer, and for creating the Green Archer character. He is most famous today as the co-creator of King Kong.
Contents
Room 13 (1924)
The Mind of Mr J G Reeder (a.k.a. The Murder Book of Mr. J. G. Reeder)
Terror Keep (1927)
Red Aces: Being Three Cases of Mr Reeder (1929)
Mr J G Reeder Returns (includes: The 'Treasure House' and 'The Shadow Man') (1932)
The Guv'nor (1932)
The Man who Passed (a.k.a. The Man from Sing Sing) (1932)
Room 13-
John Gray, a moderately wealthy gentleman who was set up for having supposedly cheated riding in a horse race and sent to Dartmoor, comes out seeking vegence on the man who sent him there --and finds himself aided in his quest by the seemingly innocuous J.G. Reeder.
The Mind of Mr J G Reeder-
Short stories are about a former police officer working for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Red Aces-
It is about a man who gambles high and lives in fear; Kennedy the Con Man, reveals the impeccable mask stripped from a fiend, and finally The Case of Jo Attymer, a thoroughly intriguing mystery involving murder on London's Thames.
