Category Archives: Edgar Wallace

Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960)

Posted on 24 July 2012 by

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries were a series of roughly four dozen hour-long B-movies made to sit on the lower birth of a cinema double bill, originally released in Britain at a rate of roughly one-a-month between 1960 and 1965. For a … Continue reading →

Posted in Edgar Wallace, Locked Room Mystery, London, Scene of the crime, Tuesday's Forgotten Film | 14 Comments

Edgar Wallace Mysteries (1960–65)

Posted on 10 July 2012 by

Between September 1960 and October 1965 cinemas in the UK screened 47 films produced by Anglo Amalgamated as part of their Edgar Wallace Mysteries series. These low-budget movies, more or less based on the works of the celebrated mystery author, … Continue reading →

Posted in Edgar Wallace, George Baxt, Jimmy Sangster, London, Police procedural, Scene of the crime, Tuesday's Forgotten Film | 18 Comments

DARKNESS AT PEMBERLEY (1932) by TH White

Posted on 24 February 2012 by

Mike Ripley in his unmissable Getting Away with Murder column recently pointed to the reprint of this early campus mystery and it is through his auspices that I have very kindly been sent a review copy by those nice people … Continue reading →

Posted in 2012 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge, Cambridge, Campus Crime, Columbo, Dorothy L. Sayers, Edgar Wallace, Locked Room Mystery, TH White | 33 Comments

THE TERROR (1930) by Edgar Wallace

Posted on 9 February 2012 by

Edgar Wallace was still a big name when I was growing up in Italy in the 1970s, his iconic signature and profile emblazoned on dozens of yellow paperbacks and linked to a long list of rather lurid movies usually set … Continue reading →

Posted in Edgar Wallace, Gothic, Hammer Studios | 21 Comments