Terror Keep
Edgar Wallace, 1927
A mild detective with a criminal mind matches wits with a laughing master criminal in a cliff-top house full of secrets.
Edgar Wallace
1875–1932
Edgar Wallace wrote fast, and you can feel it: short chapters, plain sentences, a plot that keeps moving and a dry humour underneath the menace. «Terror Keep» and «The Law of the Four Just Men» both put clever, oddly likeable men against criminals who seem a step ahead, and both trust you to keep up rather than explaining everything twice. Start with «The Law of the Four Just Men» if you want the puzzle of four vigilantes deciding what justice costs, or «Terror Keep» if a cliff-top house full of secrets and a laughing adversary sounds more like your evening.
Feels like society, dread and serenity.
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Edgar Wallace wrote an early screen treatment for King Kong and died in Hollywood before the 1933 film opened.
The quiet moment after the explosion, when a careful man begins tidying himself.
There was an explosion that deafened him; the air was suddenly filled with flying clouds of smoke and dust; he heard the crackle of wood and the pungent scent of something burning. Dazed and stupefied, he stood stock still, gaping up at Mr. Reeder, who was sitting on a stair, picking little splinters of wood from his coat. Books by Edgar Wallace
The Law of the Four Just Men
Edgar Wallace, 1921
Four self-appointed vigilantes hunt the criminals the law can't touch—with wit, disguises, and a moral arithmetic that keeps the reader guessing.
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