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Chi conosce Edgar Wallace per i suoi thriller resterà stupito di questo suo romanzo leggero. Scritto nel 1909, è una ironica e delicata satira dell'atteggiamento inglese verso la nobiltà. In certi punti si può quasi pensare che Woodhouse, che ha fatto di questo tipo di romanzi la sua fortuna, si sia ispirato a questo tipo di scrittura.

Thriller pubblicato nel 1932, e in seguito soggetto per due film, del 1940 e del 1962, che ne enfatizzarono i temi horror a scapito di quelli polizieschi, vede come protagonista il giovane Dick Martin, ex poliziotto in cerca di avventure. Londra è un necessario ingrediente della storia, insieme a sette chiavi e a un misterioso sepolcro.

La collection audio Crème de Crime rassemble des polars emblématiques de la littérature policière. Qui sont les 4 justiciers, ces mystérieux personnages châtiant les criminels impunis et réparant les injustices à travers le monde ? La question agite toute la presse anglaise car les 4 individus menacent d'exécuter le ministre des affaires étrangères s'il n'abandonne pas le projet de loi qu'il prépare. Les 4 justiciers, dotés d'une habilité et d'une audace inouïes, multiplient les avertissements publics.

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of 15 he had experience selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship’s cook. By 1894 he was engaged but broke it off to join the infantry; he was posted to South Africa. He also changed his name to Edgar Wallace, which he took from Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur. In Cape Town in 1898 he met Rudyard Kipling and was inspired to begin writing. 

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age. 'White Stockings' is a compelling and cleverly constructed story about a vengeful jilted lover with a gambling addiction, a racing tout, a gullible lover, a hairdresser and a wily old racehorse owner...most of whom are hell-bent on double-crossing each other.

When Foreign Secretary Sir Philip Ramon receives a threatening, greenish-grey letter signed 'Four Just Men', he remains determined to see his Aliens Extradition Bill made law. A device in the members' smoke room and a sudden magnesium flash that could easily have been nitro-glycerin leave Scotland Yard baffled. Even Fleet Street cannot identify the illusive Manfred, Gonsalez, Pioccart, and Thery, the Four Just Men dedicated to punishing by death those whom conventional justice can not touch.

Set in England at the turn of the 20th century, Wallace's crime novel The Daffodil Mystery follows the mysterious circumstances under which shop owner Lyne has been murdered. Accordingly, it is up to detective Jack Tarling and his trusted Chinese assistant to solve the case and reach an appropriate and just resolution. Moreover, the happenings within the novel are intensified by the colorful set of characters, which are marked by their plausible façade and contribute to the novel's appeal.

Ein Halstuch-Mörder, der seine Opfer stets mit einem indischen Seidentuch stranguliert, treibt sein Unwesen auf dem düsteren Schloss Marks Priory. Die adelsstolze Lady Lebanon, ihr Sohn Lord Willie und ihre Angestellten, scheinen eine Menge vor Scotland Yard zu verheimlichen ...

Barbara Long wird als Sekretärin bei Mr. Brownwill, einem 75-jährigen Rechtsanwalt, angestellt, den sie aber nie persönlich kennen gelernt hat. In seinem alten, unheimlichen Anwesen scheint etwas vor sich zu gehen. Und welches Geheimnis verbirgt der Butler?

The day Clay Shelton is set to be hanged, he requests to speak with the inspector who arrested him, Arnold “Betcher” Long. He tells Long that the Gallows Hand will have its revenge. Assuming he is a dead man trying to delay the inevitable, Long ignores him. But when the judge who sentenced Shelton is murdered, he finally starts to take notice.

"In newspaper-land a dull lie is seldom detected, but an interesting exaggeration drives an unimaginative rival to hysterical denunciations." When a British politician pushes through a law that will allow political refugees to be sent back to their countries of origin, he becomes the target of the Four Just Men - a group of vigilantes who set out to the punish the people who consider themselves above the law.

Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him from a conversation with librarian Sybil Lansdown to a meeting with a Doctor Stalletti, who will become a key figure. Along the way, Martin becomes involved with a small-time crook who tells him about a recent lock-picking job that has made him nervous. But before he can pass along details, the lock-picker is murdered. Next, the retiring detective gets involved in a couple of seemingly unrelated incidents—the theft of an obscure book, and an assignment to chase after an elusive young heir.