Category Archives: Edgar Wallace

What Have You Done to Solange? (1972) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film

Posted on 16 August 2016 by

In the 1960s two film companies made a long series of films using the Edgar Wallace byline – the UK thrillers were made for Anglo Amalgamated (my microsite devoted to these is here), while Rialto filmed their own in Germany, though … Continue reading →

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THE CLUE OF THE SILVER KEY (1930) by Edgar Wallace

Posted on 14 June 2016 by

Why should someone go to the trouble of assassinating petty thief Horace Tom Tickler and leaving his body inside a taxi with £100 in his pocket? This is the problem that Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard has to clear up, … Continue reading →

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THE CLUE OF THE NEW PIN (1923) by Edgar Wallace

Posted on 10 May 2016 by

In 1961 Clue of the New Pin became one of the first of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries series made at Merton Park studios to sit on the lower birth of a cinema double bill. Originally released in Britain at a rate of roughly … Continue reading →

Posted in 2016 Golden Age Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt, Edgar Wallace, Locked Room Mystery, London, Scene of the crime, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | 41 Comments

Strangler’s Web (1965) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film

Posted on 18 August 2015 by

This whodunit was originally marketed as an “Edgar Wallace mystery thriller” but in fact was an original screenplay by Fedora favourite, George Baxt. We begin in ultra traditional fashion with a woman in a nightgown being pursued in a park at night by … Continue reading →

Posted in Edgar Wallace, Film Noir, George Baxt, John Llewellyn Moxey, Noir on Tuesday, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | 28 Comments

THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER – guest post by Martin Edwards

Posted on 30 April 2015 by

Martin Edwards is a pretty amazing fellow. Not only a solicitor and a fine and prolific mystery author, he is also the consulting editor for the bestselling range of vintage mystery reprints currently being undertaken by the British Library (and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agatha Christie, Alfred Hitchcock, Carter Dickson, Edgar Wallace, England, Gladys Mitchell, John Dickson Carr, Margery Allingham, Martin Edwards, Michael Innes, Ngaio Marsh, Nicholas Blake, Patricia Wentworth, Philip MacDonald, Selwyn Jepson, TH White | 25 Comments

THE RINGER (1929) by Edgar Wallace

Posted on 22 February 2015 by

Like Somerset Maugham, the hugely popular novelist and short story writer Edgar Wallace was for a time even more successful as a playwright, starting with his 1927 smash, The Ringer, adapted from his novel, The Gaunt Stranger. It was so successful … Continue reading →

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Circus of Fear (1966) – Tuesday’s Overlooked Film

Posted on 22 July 2014 by

Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski co-star in this Anglo-German whodunit marketed as a sensational Edgar Wallace thriller. Some sources claim the story of bank robbers hiding out with a travelling circus was based on Wallace’s The Three Just Men, while others credit … Continue reading →

Posted in Edgar Wallace, England, Harry Alan Towers, London, Tuesday's Overlooked Film | Tagged , | 30 Comments