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Edgar Wallace

BonesEdgar Wallace Bones / Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country PROLOGUE SANDERS—C.M.G I You will never know from the perusal of the Blue Book the true inwardness of the happenings in the Ochori country in the spring of the year of Wish. Nor all the facts associated with ...

The Keepers of the King's PeaceEdgar Wallace The Keepers of the King's Peace CHAPTER I BONES, SANDERS AND ANOTHER To Isongo, which stands upon the tributary of that name, came a woman of the Isisi who had lost her husband through a providential tree falling upon him. I say "providential," for it ...

Tam o' the ScootsEdgar Wallace Tam o' the Scoots To QUENTIN ROOSEVELT AND ALL AIRMEN, FRIEND AND FOE ALIKE, WHO HAVE FALLEN IN CLEAN FIGHTING The world was a puddle of gloom and of shadowy things,He sped till the red and the gold of invisible dayWas burnish and flames to the undermost spread of h...

Jack O' JudgmentEdgar Wallace Jack O' Judgment CHAPTER I THE KNAVE OF CLUBS They picked up the young man called "Snow" Gregory from a Lambeth gutter, and he was dead before the policeman on point duty in Waterloo Road, who had heard the shots, came upon the scene.He had been shot in his tracks on...

The Man Who KnewEdgar Wallace The Man Who Knew CHAPTER I THE MAN IN THE LABORATORY The room was a small one, and had been chosen for its remoteness from the dwelling rooms. It had formed the billiard room, which the former owner of Weald Lodge had added to his premises, and John Minute, who had n...

The Angel of TerrorEdgar Wallace The Angel of Terror Chapter I The hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prisoner, marshalled his papers with the precision and ...

The Daffodil MysteryEdgar Wallace The Daffodil Mystery CHAPTER I AN OFFER REJECTED "I am afraid I don't understand you, Mr. Lyne."Odette Rider looked gravely at the young man who lolled against his open desk. Her clear skin was tinted with the faintest pink, and there was in the sober depths of t...

The Clue of the Twisted CandleEdgar Wallace The Clue of the Twisted Candle CHAPTER I The 4.15 from Victoria to Lewes had been held up at Three Bridges in consequence of a derailment and, though John Lexman was fortunate enough to catch a belated connection to Beston Tracey, the wagonette which wa...

The Green RustEdgar Wallace The Green Rust CHAPTER I THE PASSING OF JOHN MILLINBORN "I don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it...

The Book of All-PowerEdgar Wallace The Book of All-Power CHAPTER I INTRODUCING MALCOLM HAY If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him.The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the yo...