The Casebooks of MR J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace

The Casebooks of MR J. G. Reeder by Edgar Wallace

This is the second volume in Leonaur's collected tales about the mild mannered investigator from the Department of Public Prosecutions-Mr J G Reeder. Edgar Wallace created several characters about whom he wrote a series of stories, but few have captured the public imagination more than Mr. Reeder himself. This book contains another substantial helping from Mr Reeder's casebooks including Red Aces, Mr J. G. Reeder Returns, The Guv'nor & The Man Who Passed. All the Reeder stories are gathered together in two matching Leonaur volumes-available in softcover or hardcover with dust jacket-making them a delight for both new enthusiasts and collectors alike.

Wallace, Edgar: - Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at age 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialized short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognized author. Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. He is remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories and for The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions, and The Economist describes him as one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century.

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ISBN 13	9781846775178
ISBN 10	1846775175
Title	The Casebooks of MR J. G. Reeder
Author	Edgar Wallace
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Leonaur Ltd
Year published	2008-08-06
Number of pages	400
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