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Edgar Wallace

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080424
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Edgar Wallace (Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace), 1875-1932, English novelist and playwright, b. Greenwich. He was the author of more than 150 detective and adventure novels, of which as many as 5 million were sold in a year. The Terror (1930), which is typical of his work, still ranks high as a thriller. He wrote several plays and the scenarios for such films as King Kong (1933).

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