Short Fiction Wallace, Edgar: The Edgar Wallace Collection Vol 10; v1

[Pulpmeister]

Edgar Wallace was a prolific writer of short stories, often in the form of a series featuring the same characters and following a somewhat porous overall arc. Many of these series were collected and published many years ago: The Brigand (1927); Chick (1923); and so on.

Collections of non-series short stories were also published many years ago, but these were often assembled in a rather slapdash manner with a lot of overlapping and repetition of stories.

But there were many stories published in magazines and newspapers that were never collected; even whole series of short stories. In these 10 volumes I have endeavoured to collect together the Edgar Wallace short story output by combining the many overlapping collections, eliminating duplications, and adding many stories never gathered together between covers.

He also wrote a number of series which had too few stories to make up a collection in book form, and which therefore were never put between covers in print. They remained inside magazines and newspapers, sometimes long-defunct, until recently disinterred by diligent Edgar Wallace researchers. This volume contains five of those uncollected short series.
The first two stories of the "Captain Hex" series were rewritten for the collection "The Brigand", (1927).
The e-texts are from Roy Glashan's Library, an Australian public domain free e-book provider. The series cover design is my own.

THE STRANGE LAPSES OF LARRY LOMAN
1: The Crime Trust
2: The Affair Of The Stokehole
3: The Cure
GOSPEL TRUTH MORTIMER
4: His Start in Life
5: The Six Blue Rings
6: As Cheap as Water
7: The Agent of Kings
CAPTAIN HEX
8: Mr. Montague Flake Hands Over £8,000
9: The Outwitting of Mr. Theodore Match
10: The Foiling of Mr. Harry B. Kingberry
11: A Remarkable Deal in Pearls
12: The Man Who Betrayed Himself
13: The Secret of the Hidden Vault
14: How Mr. Milson Wren Was Outwitted
THE EARL OF NOWHERE
15: The King's Messenger
16: The Hold-Up
17: The Post-Office Clerk
18: The Edgware Road Crime
THE ELUSIVE DUD
19: The Professional Friend
20: The Rajah's Emerald
21: The Shy Mr Barks
22: A Deal in Ecfonteins
23: The Haunted House
24: The Pear-Shaped Diamond

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[Thalassa]

Originally Posted by ;

In these 10 volumes I have endeavoured to collect together the Edgar Wallace short story output by combining the many overlapping collections, eliminating duplications, and adding many stories never gathered together between covers.

Excellent job, thanks a lot for these 10 volumes of Edgar Wallace short stories and also for your many other contributions. Much appreciated!

[Pulpmeister]

You're welcome!