![]() ![]() 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). 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). ![]() He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer.īorn into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. Crime writer, war correspondent, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwrightĮthel Violet King (1921 – 10 February 1932) ![]()
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