SOURCE: "Edgar Wallace: The Passing of a Great Personality," in The Bookman, London, Vol. LXXXI, No. 486, March, 1932, pp. 3101.
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 highlights the novelist's accurate depiction of the London underworld.
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