{"product_id":"9781803993799-stranger-than-fiction","title":"Edgar Wallace","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Man Who Created King Kong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive biography of the sensational storyteller Edgar Wallace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘It is impossible not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace.’ So said the blurbs of Wallace’s own books.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndeed, he was a prolific author of over 170 books, translated into more than thirty languages. More films were made from his books than any other twentieth-century writer, and in the 1920s a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His success is written in black and white, but his life got off to an inauspicious start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdgar Wallace, the illegitimate son of a travelling actress, rose from poverty in Victorian England to become the most popular author in the world and a global celebrity of his age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFamous for his thrillers, with their fantastic plots, in many ways Wallace did not write his most exciting story: he lived it, and here Neil Clark eloquently tells his tale to allow you to live it too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40967867891809,"sku":"9781803993799","price":11.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30142794.jpg?v=1726731805","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803993799-stranger-than-fiction","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}