The Secret House

by Edgar Wallace

Overview

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). In addition to the creation of King Kong, he is remembered as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for The Green Archer serial.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789357916981
Publisher:	Alpha Editions
Publication date:	09/18/2023
Pages:	164
Sales rank:	302,192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Edgar Wallace
About the Author
English author Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an illegitimate child who left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent for Reuters and the Daily Mail.
Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income. He published The Four Just Men (1905) and Sanders of the River (1911). After a bid as Liberal MP for Blackpool, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO studios.
Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. He died from diabetes during the initial drafting of King Kong (1933).