Edgar Wallace Summary

The name Edgar Wallace too often suggests the sensational thriller, with dark deeds on darker nights, which is easily parodied or dismissed. What is overlooked is the fact that this prodigious writer ... Read more

In the following review, the critic praises Wallace's inventiveness in portraying a female villain in The Angel of Terror. The author of [The Angel of Terror] has devised something new in fi... Read more

Nathan has been called the most learned and influential drama critic the United States has yet produced. During the early decades of the twentieth century, he was greatly responsible for shifting the ... Read more

In the following essay, Arnold compares the plot elements of Wallace's The Four Just Men to those in a novel by German writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In 1959, Siegfried M. Pistorius inter... Read more

In the following review, the critic finds Wallace's The Hairy Arm to be an entertaining suspense novel. In The Hairy Arm, Edgar Wallace, one of England's most prolific writers of myst... Read more

In the following essay, McQuilland discusses Wallace's writing process and gives an overall assessment of his books. Big sales in novels are viewed with contempt by many writers and readers ... Read more

MacCarthy was one of the foremost English literary and drama critics of the twentieth century. He served for many years on the staff of the New Statesman and edited Life and Letters. A member of the B... Read more

Grierson was an English-born author best known for his crime novels and nonfiction works on crime detection. In the following excerpt, he praises Wallace as a pioneer of the thriller genre and highlig... Read more