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Resultaten voor 'edgar wallace'
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Mammoth Mystery Book
Three Complete Novels€ 55,50 -
Mammoth Mystery Book
Three Complete Novels€ 48,50 -
The Trial of Patrick Mahon
€ 37,50 -
The Trial of Patrick Mahon
€ 26,50 -
Sgt. Elk's Cases
Sgt. Elk's Cases gathers Edgar Wallace's brisk detective episodes featuring the shrewd, unpretentious Sergeant Elk, a figure whose plain speech and practical instincts cut through criminal ingenuity. The stories belong to the golden age of British popular crime fiction, yet their energy is less puzzle-box refinement than journalistic immediacy: sharp dialogue, compressed plotting, urban menace, and a fascination with the machinery of law. Wallace's authority in this world arose from a life spent close to newspapers, courts, and public sensation. Born in 1875, he became one of Britain's most prolific writers after work as a reporter and war correspondent, experiences that trained his eye for procedural detail and dramatic incident. His fiction often translates the speed of the press room into narrative form, making crime feel contemporary, public, and urgent. This collection is recommended to readers interested in the evolution of detective fiction beyond the country-house mystery. It offers entertainment of remarkable pace while preserving the social texture of interwar policing, popular justice, and metropolitan anxiety. Wallace's Sergeant Elk remains a memorable guide through that world: skeptical, humane, and reliably alert.
€ 38,00 -
The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries
The Stories of Real Murders & Mysteries gathers Edgar Wallace's excursions into true crime, presenting murder cases and enigmas with the brisk momentum of popular journalism and the structural cunning of detective fiction. Rather than merely sensationalizing violence, Wallace emphasizes circumstance, motive, clue, and human contradiction, placing the volume within the early twentieth-century fascination with criminology, forensic inference, and the public appetite for documentary mystery. Edgar Wallace, one of Britain's most prolific writers, moved naturally between newspaper reporting, crime fiction, theatre, and screenwriting. His experience as a journalist-especially his instinct for vivid detail, pace, and public curiosity-deeply informs this book. Wallace's fictional detectives and thrillers were shaped by the same world of courts, police procedure, scandal, and urban anxiety that animates these accounts of actual crimes. This volume is recommended for readers interested in the boundary between fact and fiction in crime writing. Admirers of classic detective literature will find here the documentary roots of many genre conventions, while students of popular culture will value Wallace's ability to transform criminal history into disciplined, compelling narrative without losing sight of its darker moral gravity.
€ 8,20 -
Police Constable Lee: Complete 24 Mysteries
Police Constable Lee: Complete 24 Mysteries gathers Edgar Wallace's compact tales of detection centered on an observant uniformed policeman whose quiet intelligence unsettles the assumption that brilliance belongs only to private detectives or Scotland Yard specialists. Written with Wallace's characteristic speed, clarity, and narrative economy, these stories combine procedural detail, melodramatic incident, and sharp reversals. They belong to the energetic world of early twentieth-century British crime fiction, where sensation, journalism, and the emerging detective tradition meet. Edgar Wallace, one of the most prolific popular writers of his age, brought to fiction the habits of a reporter: immediacy, appetite for urban detail, and fascination with crime as both social fact and theatrical puzzle. His work as a journalist, war correspondent, and observer of London's courts and streets helped form his instinct for brisk plotting and memorable minor figures. Constable Lee reflects Wallace's democratic interest in practical intelligence rather than aristocratic genius. This collection is recommended for readers interested in the roots of modern police fiction, as well as admirers of concise, plot-driven mysteries. It offers not only entertainment but a valuable glimpse of crime writing before the genre's later formal refinements.
€ 11,10 -
The Edgar Wallace Sci-Fi Collection
The Edgar Wallace Sci-Fi Collection gathers the author's ventures into scientific romance and speculative adventure, where inventions, epidemics, hidden powers, and imperial anxieties become engines of suspense. Written with the velocity of popular journalism and the cliff-edge plotting of the thriller, these tales stand beside early twentieth-century British science fiction in its Wellsian aftermath, yet they remain unmistakably Wallace: brisk, melodramatic, morally direct, and fascinated by the machinery of modern danger. Edgar Wallace (1875-1932), raised in poverty and formed by work as a reporter and war correspondent, became one of the most prolific storytellers in English. His lifelong intimacy with newspapers, courts, colonial politics, and mass entertainment gave him an unusually practical sense of how fear circulates through society. Though best known for crime fiction and for helping originate King Kong, Wallace found in speculative premises another means of dramatizing speed, secrecy, and public panic. Readers who enjoy classic genre fiction at the crossroads of mystery, adventure, and science fiction will find this collection both entertaining and historically revealing. It is recommended to those interested in how popular literature absorbed modernity's shocks-technology, empire, contagion, surveillance-and transformed them into compulsively readable narrative experiments.
€ 15,20 -
The Case for Mr. J. G. Reeder
In The Case for Mr. J. G. Reeder, Edgar Wallace gathers a series of crime narratives centered on one of his most distinctive investigators: the mild, stooping, umbrella-carrying Mr. Reeder of the Public Prosecutor's Department. Beneath Reeder's diffident manner lies a chillingly precise imagination for criminal motives, especially fraud, blackmail, and murder. Wallace's style is brisk, theatrical, and expertly plotted, belonging to the golden age of interwar detective fiction while retaining the sensational energy of Victorian and Edwardian crime writing. Wallace himself was unusually fitted to create such a figure. A prolific journalist, war correspondent, playwright, and novelist, he possessed an intimate knowledge of newspapers, courts, police procedure, and popular appetite for mystery. His extraordinary productivity and instinct for dramatic revelation shaped fiction that moves rapidly yet remains socially alert. Mr. Reeder's melancholy insight into wrongdoing reflects Wallace's fascination with the hidden criminality beneath respectable surfaces. This book is highly recommended to readers who enjoy classic detective fiction with ingenuity, atmosphere, and understated wit. Reeder is not a flamboyant sleuth, but his quiet brilliance makes these cases especially satisfying.
€ 24,80 -
For Information Received
€ 12,50 -
La Châtelaine d'Ascot
€ 19,50 -
Writ in Barracks
€ 14,95