The Melody of Death

Disillusioned with his wife, beset with financial burdens, an everyman who seems to have everything turns from banality to a life of crime. Gilbert Standerton is a wealthy man with a haunted soul, a man consumed with fear and doubt whose search for meaning leads him to nothing but danger. The Melody of Death is a novel by Edgar Wallace.

About the author

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer born into poverty to a single mother. Wallace's birth mother found him a foster family that later adopted him, and Wallace grew very close to the family, especially the mother, Clara Freeman. After joining the military at age 21, he started his literary career by writing serialized short stories. His career quickly grew from there, and Wallace went on to write eighteen plays, forty short story collections, and over one hundred novels. After a failed political bid in London, Wallace moved to Hollywood to begin a film career equally impressive to his literary works. Wallace is credited for one-hundred and sixty films. He was working on the film King Kong when he passed away in 1932, leaving five children and his massive collection of work behind.

Product details

• Authors: Edgar Wallace
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.05.2021
• EAN: 9781513280820
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-8082-0
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work; Mint Editions (Crime, Thrillers and Detective Work)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Crime, Classic crime, FICTION / Noir, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction