Another typical Wallace figure, The Noble Hero, is asked by his. Each book features a brand new biography and a new glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms. A typical Wallace figure, a crazed killer, is running around chopping off peoples heads.

Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. A classic crime thriller from a master movie storyteller who was a multi-million copy selling author in his time.įLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edgar Wallace, and has been. Read reviews and buy The Avenger - (Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy) by Edgar Wallace (Paperback) at Target. The discovery of a mysterious note signed 'The Head Hunter' lights up the chase for the murderer and a further series of disappearances brings the urbane detective, Captain Mike Brixan, to hunt for the hunter in a desperate race against time. The Avenger was written in the year 1926 by Edgar Wallace.

A movie set, a mysterious death and a note signed by 'The Head Hunter', Edgar Wallace offers the ingredients for a thrilling detective fiction.Įdgar Wallace, the original writer of King Kong and hundreds of vintage crime, science fiction and adventure novels, created The Avenger as a page-turning thriller about the mysterious death of Francis Elmer, a dark secret and a movie set.

The Avenger by Edgar Wallace