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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of sensational detective, gangster, adventure, and sci-fi novels, plays and stories. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12.
Edgar Wallace was a British novelist, playwright, and journalist who was an enormously popular writer of detective and suspense stories. Wallace was the illegitimate son of an actress and was adopted as an infant by a Billingsgate fish porter named George Freeman.
Edgar Wallace was a British writer and one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. Doubling up as a crime writer, playwright, and journalist, he wrote over 175 novels, 40 short story collections, 24 plays, and numerous articles in journals and newspapers in less than 3 decades of writing.
5 days ago · List of the best Edgar Wallace books, ranked by voracious readers in the Ranker community. With commercial success and critical acclaim, there's no doubt that Edgar Wallace is one of the most popular authors of the last 100 years.
Edgar Wallace has 2083 books on Goodreads with 59419 ratings. Edgar Wallace’s most popular book is The Four Just Men.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, more than any other author.
Edgar Wallace christened Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born 1st April 1875 to actress Polly Richards. He was adopted at the age of nine days, by Billingsgate Fish porter Dick Freeman. He began his working life on Fleet Street at the age of eleven selling newspapers at Ludgate Circus.
