The Economist referred to him as ""one of the most prolific thriller writers of century"" in 1997 despite the fact that the vast majority of his books are no longer in print in the UK but are still popular in Germany. Reeder detective novels, and The Green Archer serial in addition to his work on King Kong. He is famous for writing ""the colonial imagination,"" the J. His works have been adapted into more than 160 movies. It's been said that Wallace wrote one-fourth of all literature in England. At the age of 46, he passed very abruptly from untreated diabetes while the first draught of King Kong (1933) was being written. He covered the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Wallace, a 12-year-old illegitimate kid from London who was born into poverty, quit school. Though he knew he needed the book to sell sufficient copies to make 2,500 before he saw any profit, Wallace was confident that this would be achieved in the first three months of the book going on sale, hopelessly underestimating the expenses.īritish author Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace lived from 1 April 1875 to 10 February 1932. Wallace had advertisements placed on buses, hoardings, flyers, and so forth, running up an incredible bill of 2,000. His alarmed workmates at the Mail prevailed upon him to lower the prize money to 500: a 250 first prize, 200 second prize and 50 third prize, but were unable to restrain him in the privacy of his home. He approached the proprietor, Lord Harmsworth for the loan of the 1,000 and was promptly refused, but Wallace pressed ahead anyway.
Wallace intended to advertise the book on an unprecedented scale, not just in Britain itself but across the Empire.
He had to create his own publishing company, Tallis, to publish it and decided to manage a 'guess the murder method' competition in the Daily Mail with a prize of 1,000 (equivalent in purchasing power to at least 93,000 in 2013). The eponymous "Just Men" appear in several sequels.dgar Wallace formed the idea of The Four Just Men - four wealthy gentleman vigilantes (including a European prince) who punish wrong-doers who are beyond the reach of the Law - while returning to England in 1905. The Four Just Men is a detective thriller published in 1905 by the British writer Edgar Wallace.
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