Police Constable Lee: Complete 24 Mysteries

ISBN-13: 9788027385065 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str.

Edgar Wallace

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In 1909 Edgar Wallace wrote 24 short stories featuring Police Contable Lee of the London "D" Division for publication in the British weekly magazine Ideas. A number of these were reprinted in Ideas in 1928-1929 (some under new titles) and in other magazines. Nine of the P.C. Lee stories were later included in the 1961 collection The Undisclosed Client and Other Stories. So far as could be ascertained, the only story in the series that appeared in any collection published during Wallace's lifetime was "Change," which was re-written (without P.C. Lee) as "Mr. Sigee's Relations" for The Lady Called Nita, published by George Newnes, London, in 1930. Contents: - Mr. Simmons' Profession - A Man of Note - For Jewey's Laggin' - Pear-Drops - How He Lost His Moustache - Sergeant Run-A-Mile - The Sentimental Burglar - Change - A Case for Angel, Esquire - Contempt - Confidence - Fireless Telegraphy - The General Practitioner - The Snatchers - The Gold Mine - Mouldy the Scrivener - Mrs. Flindin's Lodger - The Story of a Great Cross-Examination - Tanks - The Silence of P.-C. Hirley - The Power of the Eye - The Convict's Daughter - The Derby Favourite - The Last Adventure - Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. 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.