A King by Night
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| Title: | A King by Night | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1925 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc. | ||||||||||
| Tags: | mystery | ||||||||||
| Description: | Gwendda sat up in bed and listened. There came to her the sound of deep, irregular breathing. It did not come from within the room, but from the corridor. She was out of bed in an instant, and went toward the door. She heard it again—an indescribable sound. She put her hand on the knob of the door. It turned slowly in her hand—something was trying to get into the room. “Who's there?” she whispered. For answer some huge body was suddenly flung at the panel, and she felt it sag under the weight. She stood, paralyzed with fear, and then, a hollow voice came to her through the keyhole. “Open the door, you devil! It is the King of Bonginda—obey!” Here is the tale of an evil genius, a directing mind and a creature of brute terror. [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Pages: | 217  |
Author Bio for Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.
Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 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 time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.
A prolific writer, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books then read 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 the Green Archer. 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", although few of his books are still in print in the UK.--Wikipedia.
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