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Discover new authors and their books in our ebook community. In 1923, he became chairman of the press club and in 1931 stood as a liberal parliamentary candidate for blackpool. Earlier in his career however, around 1910 he wrote 24 short stories featuring the london policeman pc lee, who pounded his beat around notting hill then a working class area, and not the chic destination it has become in the past few decades. Richard horatio edgar wallace was a prolific crime writer and author of over 175 novels and 24 plays.
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