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Edgar Wallace

Datum narození:1. duben 1875
Datum úmrtí:10. únor 1932

Edgar Horatio Edgar Wallace byl anglický spisovatel, scenárista, dramatik a novinář nazývaný králem anglické detektivky.

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britský zločinu spisovatel, novinář a dramatik

„Skromnost není nic jiného nežli strach před směšností.“

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„Pro každého muže žije někde na světě žena, kterou jen musí potkat, aby jí okamžitě chápal a aby i ona okamžitě chápala jeho“

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„Pro mladé děvče je neobyčejně důležité, aby muž měl nějaké záhadné vlastnosti.“

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„Nevěřím,že by pravá láska mohla být jiná než smutná!!“

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British crime writer, journalist and playwright

„An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.“

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British crime writer, journalist and playwright

„Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval.“ Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

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„don't know whether there's a law that stops my doing this, Jim; but if there is, you've got to get round it. You're a lawyer and you know the game. You're my pal and the best pal I've had, Jim, and you'll do it for me." The dying man looked“ The Green Rust

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„His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land or sea, and illustrating his instruction or his admonition with the quaintest phraseology.“ The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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„Later in the morning a messenger brought Mr Reeder to the chief's office, and he arrived with that ineffable air of apology and diffidence which gave the uninitiated such an altogether wrong idea of his calibre.“ The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder

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„I never did believe in the equality of the sexes, but no girl is the weaker vessel if she gets first grip of the kitchen poker.“ The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder

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„dead!” She burst into a fresh storm of sobs. Jimmy left it to the local C. I. D. to watch the house. “Though I do not expect we shall catch the birds,” he said, “for either the boy or the woman will communicate with them — that is certain.” He snatched a few hours’ sleep and was again at his desk by noon, interviewing such of the privileged reporters as had the entree to his office. Whether Dora had come to town or not he did not know, for his inquiries took him away from the house in Portland Place. He neither saw nor heard from Knowles; the little man seemed to have disappeared as completely and as mysteriously as any of those who had gone before him. His landlady reported that he had not returned to the house“ The Complete Works of Edgar Wallace

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„You see you left a little thumb print, and we are rather whales on thumb prints at Scotland Yard, Fisher.“ The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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„Listen," said T. X., grasping an ivory paperknife savagely in his hand and tapping his blotting-pad to emphasize his words, "you're a pie!“ The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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„He is very rich, has no relations, and has a passion for power." "Then he'll be hung," said the Chief, rising. "I doubt it," said the other, "people with lots of money seldom get hung. You only get hung for wanting money.“ The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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„the top of a batch of envelopes and“ Das Geheimnisvolle Haus

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„out by the Mail's proprietor Alfred Harmsworth“ Mr. Reeder Returns

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