“Oh, no,” he said; “I wasn’t in your cottage more than two hours. You’re a good Press agent, but a mighty bad conspirator. To get into the house from the outside you had to use a key. To get out from the inside you merely turn the handle.”
A Wise Symon adventure.
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London, England in 1875. He received his early education at St. Peter’s School and the Board School, but after a frenetic teens involving a rash engagement and frequently changing employment circumstances, Wallace went into the military. He served in the Royal West Kent Regiment in England and then as part of the Medical Staff Corps stationed in South Africa. Whilst in the Balkans covering the Russo-Japanese War, Wallace found the inspiration for The Four Just Men, published in 1905. Over the rest of his life, Wallace produced some 173 books and wrote 17 plays.
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Fisrt published June 1919
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