The Daffodil Mystery de Edgar Wallace

The Daffodil Mystery: The Tales of Barsoom

Edgar Wallace

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2012

When the body of the owner of a prominent department store is discovered in Hyde Park with a bullet wound, a card bearing four Chinese characters meaning "He brought this trouble upon himself," and a bouquet of daffodils on his chest, Scotland Yard calls in Jack Tarling, a detective recently returned from China. But the investigation proves to be anything but a simple one, especially when he finds he has fallen in love with the prime suspect. He finds he must follow one false clue after another to unravel the case of . . . The Daffodil Mystery

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at age 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialized short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognized author. Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. He is remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories and for The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions, and The Economist describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century."