Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace April 1 1875February 10 1932 was a prolificBritish crime writer journalist and playwright who wrote 175 novels 24plays and countle... » 

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace April 1 1875February 10 1932 was a prolificBritish crime writer journalist and playwright who wrote 175 novels 24plays and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films havebeen made of his novels more than any other author. In the 1920s one ofWallaces publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England werewritten by him. «