Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace
(1875–1932)

British crime writer, journalist, and playwright; remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and the Green Archer

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace

Works

Novels and collections

African novels ("Sanders" stories)

The Four Just Men series

Crime novels and short stories compilations

  • Angel Esquire (1908)
  • The Nine Bears (1910)
  • Grey Timothy (1913) aka Pallard the Punter
  • The Fourth Plague aka Red Hand (1913)
  • The Man Who Bought London (1915)
  • The Melody of Death (1915)
  • A Debt Discharged (1916)
  • The Tomb of T'Sin (1916)
  • The Secret House (1917) (external scan)
  • The Man Who Knew (1918)
  • The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1918)
  • Down under Donovan (1918)
  • Kate Plus 10 (1919)
  • The Green Rust (1919)
  • The Daffodil Mystery, aka The Daffodil Murder (1920)
  • Jack O' Judgment (1920) (external scan)
  • The Crimson Circle (1922)
  • The Angel of Terror, aka The Destroying Angel (1922) (external scan)
  • Mr. Justice Maxell aka Take-A-Chance Anderson (1922)
  • The Valley of Ghosts (1922)
  • The Clue of the New Pin (1923)
  • The Gaunt Stranger (1925), revised as The Ringer (1926)
  • Again The Ringer (1929)

Other novels

  • Smithy (1905)
  • Captain Tatham of Tatham Island (1909)
  • Smithy Abroad (1909)
  • The Duke in the Suburbs (1909)
  • Private Selby (1912) (external scan)
  • The Admirable Carfew (1914)
  • Smithy and the Hun (1915)
  • Those Folk of Bulboro (1918)
  • The Adventure of Heine (1917)
  • Tam o' the Scoots (1918), [aka: Tam of the Scouts, aka: Tam] Illustrated by L. A. Shafer (transcription project)
  • The Fighting Scouts (1919)
  • The Book of All-Power (1921)
  • Flying Fifty-five (1922)
  • Chick (1923) (external scan)
  • The Books of Bart (1923)
  • Barbara on Her Own (1926)
  • This England (1927)

Works from magazines

The Admirable Carfew (Windsor Magazine 1911-1914; book 1914)
Bones and Sanders stories
  • "The Branding of Bones" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
  • "A Maker of Storms" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
  • "Bones and the Wireless" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
  • "The Remedy" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
  • "The Medicine Man" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1916
  • "The Magic of Fear" (ss) Everybody's, 1925 Dec
Chick (Windsor Magazine 1921-22)
Longer works

Poetry collections

  • The Mission That Failed (1898)
  • War and Other Poems (1900)
  • Writ in Barracks (1900) (external scan)

Plays

  • The Ringer (1929)
  • On the Spot (1930)
  • The Squeaker (1930)

Screenplays

  • King Kong (1932)
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
  • The Squeaker (1930)
  • The Valley of Ghosts (1928)
  • Prince Gabby (1929)

Fact books

  • Famous Scottish Regiments (1914)
  • Field Marshal Sir John French (1914)
  • Heroes All: Gallant Deeds of the War (1914)
  • The Standard History of the War (1914)
  • Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces: The Full Story of a Great Achievement (1915) (external scan)
  • 1925-The Story of a Fatal Place (1915)
  • War of the Nations (1915-1917, 9 volumes)
  • People (1926)


  1. The Four Just Men as Part I: The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; The Council of Justice as Part II: The Council of Justice

A huge collection of Edgar Wallace's works is available at [PG Australia]

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1932, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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