Some of the reasons why I enjoy reading Edgar Wallace.
"…at that moment he wore the facial expression peculuar to managing editors at midnight — which may be likened to that of a man who has an engagement with the public executioner and is anxious to commit just another tiny little murder before he dies."
— from "The Caretaker In Charge," The Novel Magazine, August 1919
More entertaining than most descriptions of ponderance.
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I never actually read Wallace -maybe I should - but often saw his plays at local halls where one could be sure of a pistol crack or two.
ReplyDeleteScarlet: quite so. (I had to look the word up here.)
ReplyDeletePat: Given that he died eighty years ago, I find his a surprisingly modern writing style.
Not ponderosa?
ReplyDeleteSteven: No, we'll come to that later.
ReplyDeleteI've not ready any of Wallace's work up to now but I feel an urge to now. Thanks for the tip off.
ReplyDeleteHappy Frog: Please do, if you can find them, they're fun.
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