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Flat 2 (Esprios Classics), Paperback / softback Book

Flat 2 (Esprios Classics) Paperback / softback

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer.

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).

In 1931 he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a script writer for RKO.

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.

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