Edgar Wallace

smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Horatio Edgar Wallace (* 1. April 1875 in Greenwich, London; † 10. February 1932 in Hollywood, California), was an English writer, film script author, a director, a journalist and a dramatist. Wallace belongs to the most successful English-language Kriminalschriftstellern.

Table of contents 1 life and work 2 books & direction of 2,1 detective stories of 2,2 Africa novels 2,3 general ones of 2,4 special titles of 2,5 pieces of stage of 2,6 direction 2,7 film script 3 see also 4 literature 5 Web on the left of

lives and work

Wallace became under the name smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Horatio Edgar as an illegitimate son of an actress andan actor born and immediately after its birth of a Londoner fishmonger adopts. It did not originate from ärmlichen conditions and had final education. He worked himself nevertheless in the Burenkrieg up to the war correspondent in South Africa highly. After its return to London he worked as a journalist andSpecial correspondent.

The novels of Edgar Wallace were translated into forty-four languages. 1905 appeared in the self-publishing house its first detective story the four fair ones, which was a public success, but for Wallace a financial disaster meant. It had everyone, which would guess the solution of the book, onePrice at height of 500 Pound promised, for times at that time a tremendous sum. Too many humans guessed the end of the novel and it were financial thereby at the end. Only DAILY Mail was to be owed to the intervention of lord Harmworth of that that Edgar Wallacethis failure projected.

Admits became it particularly by its journalistic work and its Africa novels, of whose first 1911 under the title Sanders from the river appeared.

Wallaces most famous crime film was the Hexer, that as play at the 1. May 1926 was uraufgeführt and more enormousSuccess was. In Germany the premiere took place 1927 at the German theatre in Berlin under the direction of max of Reinhardt . For the first filming of its novel The Squeaker (dt. The Zinker) (1930) it wrote not only the film script, but led also even direction.

Afterthat there were 1959 turned German feature the frog with the mask in the 1960er and 1970er years a proper Edgar Wallace boom in Germany with 32 Wallace filmings. Many of these films with the saying hello, here speaks Edgar Wallace introduced. In the films placed Klaus Kinski often the criminal or suspecting.

Nowadays we think with Edgar Wallace mainly of a novel writer, but at its time he was also a very well-known dramatist. In its piece of stage of The Ringer e.g. that played at that time very well-known actors Gerald you Maurier, the father of the authoress Daphne you Maurier is.

Wallace wrote also numerous Kurzgeschichten, essays, poems, plays as well as film scripts. He was a film script author of the classical author King Kong and the white woman with Fay Wray (he still deceased before its premiere at a pneumonia). As itsCoffin was transferred from the USA to England, in the port by Southampton half-mast was flown a flag and in of London legendary newspaper route - the fleets Street - rang the bells. Wallace is buried in Little Marlow , England. In the proximity the fleets Street reminds at „the loading gateCircus “a Gedenktafel at Edgar Wallace with the text: “He became acquainted with wealth and poverty - he operated with kings and remained oneself nevertheless he faithfully. Its talents he dedicated to the literature, but its heart belonged the fleets Street.“

Its son BryanEdgar Wallace and its daughter Penelope were likewise Kriminalschriftsteller.

Wallace had a very leave life-style, its play craze brought in for it high debts. But its debts could adjust an inheriting by the percentages of profits of its works within a yearly. This very day the percentages of profits amount to approx.1 million euro in the year.

books & direction

of detective stories

• 1905 The Four Just Men, (dt. The four fair ones, 1934)
• 1908 fishing rod Esquire, (dt. The Safe with the mystery lock, 1927)
• 1910 The Nine Bears
• 1913 The Fourth Plague, (dt. Fourth troubles, 1933)
• 1913 Grey Timothy
• 1915 The one Who Bought London, (dt. Kerry buys London, 1931)
• to 1915 The Melody OF Death, (dt. The melody of death, 1932)
• 1916 A Debt Discharged, (dt. The debt of the other one, 1929)
• 1916 The Tomb OF T'Sin
• 1917 The Just Men OF Cordova, (dt. The three of Corduba, 1929)
• 1917 The Secret House, (dt. The mysterious house, 1930)
• 1918 The Clue OF The Twisted Candle, (dt. The curved candle, 1954)
• 1918 down Under Donovan,(dt. The Derbysieger, 1932)
• 1919 The Green prepare, (dt. The green fire, 1929)
• 1919 Kate plus 10, (dt. Käthe and their ten? )
• 1919 The one Who Knew, (dt. The man, who knew everything, 1932)
• 1920 The Daffodil Mystery, (dt.The secret of the yellow narcissuses, 1928)
• 1920 Jack O'Judgment, (dt. The death map, also as Treffbube is plays the trump card appeared 1961)
• 1921 The Law OF The Four Just Men, (also appeared as Again The Three Just Men; dt. The law of the four, 1929)
• 1922 TheFishing rod OF terror, (dt. The angel of the fright, 1931)
• 1922 The Crimson Circle, (dt. The red circle, 1931)
• 1922 Mr Justice Maxell, (dt. Judge Maxells crime, 1929)
• 1922 The Valley OF Ghosts, (dt. A.S. the invisible one, 1929)
• 1923 Captains OF Souls, (dt. The soul of the other one, 1929)
• 1923 The Clue OF The new pin, (dt. The secret of the pin, 1928)
• 1923 The Green Archer, (dt. The green elbow contactors, 1928)
• 1923 The MISSING million, (dt. The uncanny letters, 1961)
• 1924 The Dark EyesOF London, (dt. The dead eyes of London, 1929)
• 1924 doubles Dean, (dt. The double, 1930)
• 1924 Educated Evans
• 1924 The Face in The Night, (dt. The face in the darkness, 1932)
• 1924 Room 13, (dt. Room 13, 1929)
• 1924 The SinisterOne, (dt. The uncanny one, 1928)
• 1924 The Three Oak Mystery, (dt. With the three oaks, 1930)
• 1925 The Blue hand, (dt. The blue hand, 1928)
• 1925 The Daughters OF The Night, (dt. The daughters of the night, 1933)
• 1925 The Fellowship OFThe Frog, (dt. The frog with the mask, 1930)
• 1925 The Gaunt Stranger (dt. The Hexer)

from this novel developed the play The Ringer (the Hexer). This piece was revised completely and appeared again as the again arranged novel The Ringer. The GermanFirst edition took place after the revised version.

• 1925 A King By Night, (dt. The Unhold, 1932)
• 1925 The Mind OF Mr. J.G. Shipowner, (dt. The sixth sense of the Mr. Shipowner, 1930)
• 1925 The strand Countess, (dt. The strange countess, 1928)
• 1926 The Avenger,(dt. The Rächer, 1927)
• 1926 The Black Abbot, (dt. The black abbott, 1930)
• 1926 The Day OF Uniting, (dt. The recent day, 1933)
• 1926 The Door With Seven LOCK, (dt. The door with the seven locks, 1927)
• 1926 The Joker, (dt.The Joker, 1931)
• 1926 The one From Morocco, (dt. The man of Morocco, 1928)
• 1926 The million dollar story, (dt. Million-history, 1935)
• 1926 More Educated Evans
• 1926 The Northing Tramp, (dt. Northward Strolch! , 1930)
• 1926 Penelope OF The Polyantha,(dt. Penelope of the Polyantha, 1930)
• 1926 The Square Emerald, (dt. The square emerald, 1929)
• 1926 The Terrible People, (dt. The gang of the fright, 1927)
• 1926 incoming goods sound lake! (in secret agent Nr.6, 1933)
• 1926 The Yellow Snake, (dt. The yellow queue,to 1928)
• 1927 bend Foot, (dt. Large foot, 1928)
• 1927 The Brigand, (dt. The Brigant, 1931)
• 1927 The Feathered Serpent, (dt. Gucumatz, 1928)
• 1927 Flat 2, (dt. Louba, the player, 1932)
• 1927 The Forger, (dt. The counterfeiter, 1930)
• 1927 Good Evans
• 1927 The hand OF power, (dt. In the spell of the uncanny one, 1931)
• 1927 The one Who which Nobody, (dt. The man, who changed its name, 1932)
• 1927 The mixers, (dt. The Preller, 1931)
• of 1927 NUMBERs Six, (dt. Secret agent No. 6, 1928)
• 1927 The Squeaker, (dt. The Zinker, 1928)
• 1927 terror Keep, (dt. John Flack, 1928)
• 1927 The Traitor's gate, (dt. The traitor gate, 1928)
• 1928 The doubles, (dt. The hobby of the old Derrick, 1931)
• 1928 elegantly Edward
• 1928 The Flying Squad, (dt. Assault command,1930)
• 1928 The Gunner, (dt. Hands UP, 1929)
• 1928 The Orator, (dt. The speaker, 1932)
• 1928 The Thief into the Night, (dt. The thief at the night, 1928)
• 1928 The Twister, (dt. A clever chap, 1934)
• 1929 Again The Ringer,(dt. New of the Hexer, 1932)
• 1929 Again The Three Just Men = The Law OF The Three Just Men, (dt. The silver triangle, 1931)
• to 1929 The bend Four Kriminalkurzroman, in the uncanny monk
• 1929 The Black, 8 Kriminalerzählungen
• 1929 The Cat Burglar, 10 Kriminalerzählungen
• 1929 Circumstantial Evidence, 10 Kriminalerzählungen
• 1929 Fighting Snub Reilly, 8 Kriminalerzählungen
• 1929 For information Received, (dt. The jewel from Paris, 1929)
• 1929 Forty Eight Short Stories, 48 Kriminalerzählungen, collection
• 1929 Four Square Jane, 1 (dt. The Abenteuerin, 1933)
• 1929 The Ghost OFDown Hill
• 1929 The golden Hades, (dt. The golden Hades, 1934)

• 1929 The Green Ribbon, 1929 (dt. Turfschwindel, 1953)
• 1929 The India Rubber Men: Inspector John calf, 1929 (dt. The hotel to the Themse, 1953)
• 1929 Four Square Jane, 1929, (dt.The Abenteuerin, 1933)
• 1929 talk Aces, (dt. Mr. Shipowner knows, 1961)
• 1929 The terror, (dt. The uncanny monk, 1955)
• 1929 The one Who Changed His name, (dt. The man with the two faces, 1963)
• 1929 sentimentally Simpson, (Kurzgeschichten; dt. Thatsentimental Mr. Simpson, 1976)
• 1929 The Lone House Mystery
• 1929 Planetoid 127, Kriminalkurzroman, into the jewel from Paris
• 1929 The Queen OF Sheba's Belt, 1929
• 1930 The hand OF power, 1930
• 1930 Silinski - master Criminal: Detective E.G. Smith, 1930
• 1930 TheThief into the Night, 1930
• 1930 White Face, 1930 (dt. The devil of Tidal Basin, 1952)
• 1930 The Iron Grip
• 1930 The Clue OF the Silver key, 1930 (also appeared as The Silver key; dt. The bright key, 1953)
• 1930 The ladyOF Ascot, 1930 (dt. The countess of Ascot, 1961)
• 1931 The Ringer Returns, (Again the Ringer; dt. New of the Hexer, 1953)
• 1931 The one RK The Carl clay/tone, (dt. The man from the Carl clay/tone, 1933)
• 1931 The Coat OF of arm,(also appeared as The Arranways Mystery; dt. Fire in the lock, 1960)
• 1931 on the Spot: Violence and Murder in Chicago, 1931 (dt. Into death skillfully, 1958)
• 1932 When The of course Came ton London, (dt. Gangster in London, 1956)
• 1932 Sergeant Sir Peter, 1932 (also as Sergeant thin, C.I.D. appeared)
• 1932 The Shadow one & The one Who Passed of 2 short novels, so not in the English expenditure for original, (dt. as the man in the background, 1935)
• 1933 The Frightened lady, (dt. The Indian cloth, 1956)
• 1933 The Green luggage, (dt. Lotterie of death, 1961)
• 1934 The Devil one, 1931 (dt. The devil human being. 1934)
• 1934 Mr J. G. Shipowner Returns
• 1934 The Woman From The East
• 1935 The one Who Changed His name, (R.Curtis) detective story (after the play)
• 1935 The Mouthpiece, (E.W. & R.Curtis) detective story (after the play)
• 1936 Sanctuary Iceland, (R.Curtis) detective story (after the film script)
• 1935 Smoky Cell, (R.Curtis) detective story (after the film script)
• 1936 The Table, (R.Curtis) detective story (after the film script)

the last 4 novels are versions of playsand Filmskripten by Robert Curtis, private secretary of Edgar Wallace

of Africa novels

• 1911 of Sanders OF The River, (dt. Sanders of the river, 1929)
• 1911 The People OF The River, (dt. The natives of the river, 1929)
• 1913 The River OF of star, (dt. ThatDiamond river, 1937)
• 1914 bad lectern OF The River, (dt. Bad lectern, 1926)
• 1915 Bones, (dt. Bones in Africa, 1928)
• 1917 The Keepers OF The King's Peace, (dt. Guardian of the peace, 1929)
• 1918 lieutenant Bones, (dt. Lieutenant Bones, 1927)
• 1921 Bones in London,(dt. Bones in London, 1928)
• 1922 Sandi the Kingmaker, (dt. Sanders of the Königsmacher, 1928)
• 1923 Bones OF the River, (dt. Bones of the river, 1927)
• 1926 of Sanders, (dt. Sanders, 1951)
• 1928 Again of Sanders, (dt. At the large river, 1931)

general one

• 1898 The mission That Failed, 23 poems
• 1900 was and OTHER Poems, 5 poems
• 1900 Writ in bar racks, 34 poems
• 1901 Unofficial Despatches, war reports of the Burenkrieg
• 1905 Smithy, military satires, Kurzgeschichten
• 1908 The Council OF Justice
• 1909 Captain Tatham OF TathamIceland, novel (dt. Completely Europe to the defiance, 1933)
• 1909 Smithy Abroad military satires, Kurzgeschichten
• 1909 The Duke in The Suburbs, novel
• 1912 private Selby, novel from the Burenkrieg
• 1914 The Admirable Carfew, cheerful narrations (dt. Mr. Concern-freely, 1931)
• 1915 Smithy and The Hun, 21 war stories)
• 1918 Tam OF The Scouts, war book
• 1918 Those Folk OF Bulboro, society novel
• 1919 The Adventure OF Heine, war stories
• 1919 The Fighting Scouts, 9 war stories, continuation of Tam OF The Scouts
• 1921 The Book OF universe power, (dt.The book of the omnipotence, 1931)
• 1922 Flying Fifty five, Turfroman
• 1923 The Books OF beard, maintenance novel
• 1923 Chick, 12 cheerful narrations (dt. Lord against will, 1929)
• 1926 Barbara on ago Own, cheerful novel (dt. Condemned competition, 1932)
• 1927 This England, 20 essays

special title

• 1914 Famous Scottish of regiment
• 1914 Field Marshal Sir John French
• 1914 Heroes universe: Gallant Deeds OF The was
• 1914 The standard History OF The was territorial, 4
• volumes 1915 Kitchener's Army and The Forces: The fill story OF A GreatAchievement, war report
• 1915 1925 - The story OF A fatal Place
• of 1915 volume. 2 - 4 was OF The nation, Hist. Special book
• of 1916 volume. 5 - 7 was OF The nation, Hist. Special book
• of 1917 volume. 8 - 9 was OF The nation, Hist. Special book
• 1918 Tam OF The Scouts, war book
• 1926 People (dt. Humans, 1928), autobiography

of pieces of stage

• of 1925 The Ringer (dt. The Hexer, 1933)
• 1930 The Calendar (dt. Place and victory, 1932)

direction

• 1929 talk Aces
• 1930 The Squeaker

film script

• 1932 King Kong and the white Mrs. Mitarbeit at the first version.

see also

• the Edgar Wallace films

to literature

• Florian Pauer: “The Edgar Wallace films”, 1982, Goldmann publishing house ISBN 3442102162
• Christos Tses: The Hexer, the Zinker and other oneMurderer, plain language publishing house, meal 2002 ISBN 3-89861-080-2
• Joachim Kramp/Jürgen pain mink: Edgar the Wallace encyclopedia. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-89602-508-2
• Joachim Kramp: Hello! Here Edgar Wallace speaks! - The history of the Kriminalfilmserie of 1959 - 1972, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin2005 ISBN 3-89602-645-3

Web on the left of

• Edgar Wallace in the Internet Movie DATA cousin
• Edgar Wallace on crime film Couch.de - haven-guesses/advises, bibliography and reviews
• wallace online.de fan side
• www.rialtofilm.de: Everything to the “Edgar Wallace” - filmings
• HIS - a radio play information system information about the radio play series with speaker data baseand photos of the speakers

person data
NAME	Wallace, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAME
SHORT DESCRIPTION	of English crime film writers
DATE OF BIRTH	1. April 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greenwich, England
DYING DATE	10. February 1932
DYING PLACE	Hollywood, California