The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace, Fiction, Classics, Mystery & Detective - Hardcover

Wallace, Edgar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1606647555 ISBN 13: 9781606647554

Publisher: Aegypan, 2008

Synopsis

                                                                                                              DEATH OF A POSEUR

He was a poet, was Mr. Thorton Lyne. Oh so elegant and charming! Mr. Lyne owned the estimable shoppe, Lyne's Emporium, and he presided over his dominion and employee's like a dandy king over his subjects.

But who has the nerve to resign, after all he's done for her? Why, the beautiful Odette Rider, whom he saved from destitution. The ingrate. And this other vile employee . . . this Mr. Milburgh. There was something fishy about him.

So Lyne summoned detective Jack Tarling and his trusty Chinese associate Ling Chu to investigate Mr. Milburgh . . .

Later, Mr. Thorton Lyne wound up quite dead in Odette's flat, topped by a bunch of daffodils!

Jack Tarling must find the killer, before more daffodils are planted!

About this title

About the Author:

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."

About this edition

• Publisher: Aegypan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1606647555
• ISBN 13: 9781606647554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180