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A colossus with a taste for the frontline; One of the 20th century's most famous writers was covering the First Wo rld War for The Birmingham Post 80 years ago. Ross Reyburn looks at the career of a remarkable man.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19980620
Author:Reyburn, Ross

At the time of his death in 1932, the thriller writer Edgar Wallace remarkably was earning more than pounds 60,000 a year. Fifteen years earlier as the Birmingham Daily Post's military correspondent, his weekly salary was 12 guineas.

It was Lord Kitchener who was indirectly responsible for one of the 20th century's most successful writers spending virtually the entire First World War producing daily columns on the war in The Post.

During the Boer War, Wallace proved a daring, fearless war correspondent and no respecter of censorship. The news that peace had been signed ...

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