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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Edgar Wallace
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(1875–1932) Exceptionally prolific author of thrillers and plays, producing four or five books a year (he was ahead of his time in dictating them on to the wax cylinders of a dictaphone) and sometimes having three plays running in the West End. His first success was The Four Just Men (1905); in Sanders of the River (1911) he introduced the famous district commissioner who 'kept the king's peace amongst the cannibals of West Africa'. Wallace died in Hollywood where he was writing stories for films. The first to reach the screen, after his death, was an enduring classic – King Kong (1933).
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