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NEWS AND
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Edgar
WALLACE (1875-1932)
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In the July 2007
Newsletter we covered a number of writers of Crime and Mystery. This month we
cover another writer from this genre, Edgar Wallace. Wallace wrote the "J G
reeder" series and we have the complete set at Project Gutenber of Australia
(see http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-n-z.html#wallacee)
Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Wallace)
states that "In the 1920s, one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of
all books read in England were written by him."
Two new Wallace postings
appear below in the list of November postings.
"The Technique of the
Mystery Story"
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On the subject of
Crime and Mystery, the November postings include "The Technique of the Mystery
Story" by Carolyn Wells. Published in 1913 the work covers, in its 26 chapters,
all aspects of the genre and the works of Poe, Doyle, and Gaboriau, among
others, are discussed. I enjoyed the section "Favorite Phrases of Detectives" in
Chapter 14, particularly the discussion relating to "two plus two.". Wells
provides a number of quotes:
"Two and two make four, not sometimes, but
all the time."
"Trust a woman to add two and two together, and make
six"
"Your work convinced us that you know how to put two and two
together, which is more than can be said for the ordinary mortal."
"If
you were asked to prove that two and two make four, you might find some
difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact."
New "Crime and
Mystery" page at PGA
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With the
number of Crime and Mystery writers represented at PGA we just had to create a
separate page for them. The page is still under construction but there are
already quite a few entries. See http://gutenberg.net.au/crime-mystery.html.
Suggestions for additions, deletions or corrections are welcome.
LAST
MONTH'S
POSTINGS
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A
list of all the books we provide is available from http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html.
Check
there to see if there are other works by the authors listed below.
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NOVEMBER POSTINGS --
Nov 2007 The Joker, Edgar
Wallace
[070118xx.xxx] 1571A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701181.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701181h.html
Nov
2007 The Clue of the New Pin, Edgar
Wallace
[070117xx.xxx] 1570A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701171.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701171h.html
Nov
2007 Max Carrados Mysteries, Ernest
Bramah
[070116xx.xxx] 1569A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701161.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701161h.html
[Title:
Max Carrados Mysteries--Another Anthology]
Nov 2007 The Technique of the
Mystery Story, Carolyn Wells [070115xx.xxx] 1568A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701151.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701151h.html
Nov
2007 Tales of the Ring and the Camp, Arthur Conan Doyle[070114xx.xxx]
1567A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701141.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701141h.html
Nov
2007 The Unlit Lamp, Radclyffe
Hall
[070113xx.xxx] 1566A
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701131.txt
or .zip
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0701131h.html
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