SOURCE: "King Edgar, and How He Got His Crown," in his Snobbery with Violence: Crime Stories and Their Audience, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971, pp. 73-84.
Watson was an English journalist and novelist who was known for his detective novels. In the following essay, he speculates that the wide popularity of Wallace's novels was due to predictable plots and characters, as well as the author's refusal to question middle-class tastes and morality.
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