The Secret House

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
ISBN 13 : 3964542954
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by Edgar Wallace and published by Aeterna Classics. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandalous periodical "The Gossip's Corner" is run by a supposed blackmailer whose identity has baffled the police -- until T.B. Smith, a singlularly acute Assistant Commisioner, gradually tracks the man to the Secret House.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by Edgar Wallace and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1927-01-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor" whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police, the connections to blackmail are not long in coming. Were these men shot by the blackmailer? Who is actually what he seems to be?....... Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 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 serialised 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 recognised author. After an unsuccessful bid to stand as Liberal MP for Blackpool (as one of David Lloyd George's Independent Liberals) in the 1931 general election, Wallace moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO studios. He died suddenly from undiagnosed diabetes, during the initial drafting of King Kong (1933). 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 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", although few of his books are still in print in the UK.Wallace was born at 7 Ashburnham Grove, Greenwich, to actors Richard Horatio Edgar and Mary Jane "Polly" Richards, née Blair.[4][5][6] Wallace's mother was born in 1843, in Liverpool, to an Irish Catholic family. Mary's family had been in show business, and she worked in the theatre as a stagehand, usherette, and bit-part actress until she married in 1867. Mary's husband, Captain Joseph Richards, was also born in Liverpool, in 1838; he was also from an Irish Catholic family. He and his father John Richards were both Merchant Navy captains, and his mother Catherine Richards came from a mariner family. When Mary was eight months pregnant, in January 1868, her husband died at sea. After the birth, destitute, Mary took to the stage, assuming the stage name "Polly" Richards. In 1872, Polly met and joined the Marriott family theatre troupe, managed by Mrs. Alice Edgar, her husband Richard Edgar, and their three adult children, Grace Edgar, Adeline Edgar, and Richard Horatio Edgar. Richard Horatio Edgar and Polly had a "broom cupboard" style sexual encounter during an after-show party. Discovering she was pregnant, Polly invented a fictitious obligation in Greenwich that would last at least half a year and obtained a room in a boarding house where she lived until her son's birth, on 1 April 1875....

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by Edgar Wallace and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-20T18:27:50Z with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. B. Smith, Assistant Commissioner of Police, suspects that the murder of two foreigners is connected to Montague Fallock, a notorious blackmailer of prominent British citizens. Suspicion points to a wealthy businessman, who subsequently disappears, leaving a suicide note and a vast fortune to his ward, Doris. The investigation leads to a small country village and a secret house built by a wealthy hermit who is not what he seems. Who is the blackmailer and who is the victim? Published in 1919, The Secret House explores the good and the evil that exist in human nature. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : M.L. Adams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491867310
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House Adventure written by M.L. Adams and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author M. L. Adams wrote “The Secret House Adventure” for 8+ years old who are just entering the world of fiction for children, moving beyond the single words of “Cat in the Hat”, but not quite ready for “Harry Potter”. Four spunky best friends in Small Town, U.S.A. are compelled to enter a forbidden old mansion at the edge of town. Penny, “Mac”, “Toad” and Jeannie are transported into a time warp they are unable to explain, far beyond the ordinary life they know. Along the way, they learn the history of the house and the people who had occupied it, but the mystery of their experience does not seem to have an easy answer. Go on this exciting ride with them, as they try to figure out how an ordinary abandoned house keeps bringing these curious 10 year old back to its door over and over again.

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 150670140X
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire written by Neil Gaiman and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write fiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler. Shane Oakley beautifully illustrates New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's satirical tale.

Author : Neil Gaiman
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1630089702
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neil Gaiman's Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire written by Neil Gaiman and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write fiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to the death, and his sinister butler. Shane Oakley beautifully illustrates New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's satirical tale.

Author : David Bodanis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by David Bodanis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of science's application to the everyday world. Includes the physical and biological events that go on daily.

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040465173
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by Edgar Wallace and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John E. Gardner
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 : 9780515102376
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Houses written by John E. Gardner and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two families--the British Railtons and the American Farthings--have dedicated their lives to espionage. Now, as the Nazis rise to power, the Railton's top-secret operation, Tarot, is betrayed. Its members face certain death at the hands of the Gestapo. And only one thing is known about the traitor's identity. He--or she--is certainly a Railton!

Author : Rosemary Craddock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780709176725
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret House written by Rosemary Craddock and published by . This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: