Wallace Edgar: 57 books

THE road from Alebi is a bush road. It is a track scarcely discernible, that winds through forest and swamp, across stretches of jungle land, over thickly vegetated hills. No tributary of the great river runs to the Alebi country, where, so people say, wild and unknown tribes dwell; where strange...

Edith Wharton (/ˈiːdɪθ ˈhwɔrtən/; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view...

"MURDER is neither an art nor a science, it is an accident," said Socrates Smith, and Lex Smith, his younger brother, his most devoted admirer and his dearest trial, grinned sardonically. A greater contrast between the two men it would be difficult to imagine. "Soc" Smith, was...

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 a night of snow and storm and none saw the murder. When they got...

Das geheimnisvolle Haus wurde über einer alten Kohlengrube erbaut. Sein Besitzer scheint ein schwachsinniger Millionär zu sein, der von einem privaten Irrenarzt betreut wird. Inspektor T.B.Smith von Scotland Yard ist einem gefährlichen Erpresser auf der Spur, und immer wieder zieht es ihn in Richtung des geheimnisvollen Hauses.

Inspektor Luke befasst sich seit ein paar Jahren mit Pferdewetten. Nicht privat, sondern im Auftrag. Auf einer Reise von Südamerika nach England lernt er eine junge Frau kennen, deren verstorbener Onkel Pferde züchtete.

Die "Vier Gerechten" haben sich zur Aufgabe gemacht Verbrechen, die das Gesetz nicht bestrafen kann, selbst zu bestrafen. Die folgenden Geschichten sind hier vereint: - Der Mann von Clapham - Der Mann mit den grossen Eckzähnen - Der Mann, der die Regenwürmer haßte - Der Mann, der...

Lord Frensham lag mit dem Oberkörper auf dem Schreibtisch. Seine rechte Hand umklammerte den Revolver,und neben dem Toten fand man einen Abschiedsbrief. Für die Polizei ein klarer Fall:»Selbstmord im Zustand geistiger Umnachtung.«Doch Inspektor Elk gibt sich damit nicht zufrieden. Er forscht weiter und stößt schon bald auf eine heiße Spur. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen.

John Sands, einem abgefeimter Verbrecher ist es gelungen das Vertrauen von Harry Leman, dessen Nichte und auch deren Verehrer, des Journalisten Jimmy Cassidy zu erringen. Um die Millionen Harry Lemans zu erhalten, schreckt er vor nichts zurück.

MILITARY "crime" is not crime at all, as we law-abiding citizens recognize it. The outbreak in the Anchester Regiment was not a very serious affair; from what I can gather, it mostly took the form of breaking out of barracks after "lights out." But, explained Smithy, it got a bit...

MANY years ago the Monrovian Government sent one Bosambo, a native of the Kroo coast and consequently a thief, to penal servitude for the term of his natural life. Bosambo, who had other views on the matter, was given an axe and a saw in the penal settlement—which was a patch of wild forest in the...

SMITHY sat on the canteen table swinging his legs, and all that was best, brightest, and most noble in the First Battalion of the Anchester Regiment sat round listening. The glow of sunset lingered in the sky, but blue dusk sat on the eastern side of the barrack square; where, in the shade of the...

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 young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the...

SMITHY sat on the edge of his cot and sorted his belongings. The solid black trunk that a paternal Government provided for the reception of the soldiers’ worldly possessions was wide open, and the inside of the lid was a picture gallery of cigarette pictures. “When Nobby became my bed chum,”...