Talk:Edgar Wallace

message: How would this best be expanded? Seems well fleshed out to me, now. Aaronwinborn 13:19, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion?

message: How do we know that he was exactly nine days old when he was found abandoned in Billingsgate?  Was there a note documenting his date of birth?  Something needs to be said about this.  JackofOz 00:01, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nine days

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message: Infuriated, Caldecott did indeed book passage back to England, but was further outraged by the lack of penitently weeping family on the Johannesburg docks. Many years later, Ivy would bear the brunt of his vindictiveness.
Cape Town or Durban docks perhaps - Johannesburg is a long way from the sea!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.224.166.77 (talk) 15:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Johannesburg docks? 

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message: I am not so certain if the Edgar Wallace Plot Wheel is fictitious. At least it's not an invention of Stephen King's. 
Michael Crichton mentions the plot wheel in his non-fiction book Electronic Life and even give a BASIC program to perform the same function. Crichton does not state Wallace's name, however. He referred to a "famous mystery writer" but otherwise described the same plot wheel King describes. 
I had brought the plot wheel to the attention of the Edgar Wallace Appreciation Society and even his granddaughter had never heard of it.
So the truth of this plot wheel are shrouded in mystery. In either case, given the mention in Crichton's book, I'll remove reference to it being King's invention as it most likely isn't.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.79.228.134 (talk) 22:01, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot wheel. 

message: I have done a fairly major clean up on the prose of the article. It seemed like it was mostly written by a family relation, drawing from personal anecdote, or from an over-excited reader of a romantic biography of Wallace. Some of what was written clashed in dates and travels with the profile in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, so I have gone with that source.  I suspect much of what was added in 2006 is true (in the way that family stories are true) but there was a hopeless amount of unref'd, tangential detail and editorialising comment. For those interested in tales connected to Wallace's life the old version is worth exploring and if anyone wants to try and dig out refs to support relevant deleted detail, they are more than welcome. As a major British writer, my hope is that Wallace can have a decent biography. Span (talk) 13:07, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent edit

message: One of Wallace's publishers said that a quarter of all books read in the early twentieth century England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screenplays, poetry, historical novels, non-fiction, eighteen stage plays, 957 short stories, and over 170 novels. 12 novels in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of his work and the only one remembered today is the screenplay for King Kong. BBC Radio 4 Extra, 20 March 2014. (84.236.152.71 (talk) 19:21, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: To my knowledge, this is the first time I have been featured on BBC Radio 4. As it turns out the text is also given on BBC music, though why, I'm not sure. If anyone is wondering about sourcing this was the article version from before Christmas 2013 (see above note of editing changes). You would hope the BBC would do better than reading off verbatim a WP article, but I guess we should take it as an act of faith in our dedicated army of editors. Thanks very much for posting the link. Anna (talk) 23:00, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: To quote the BBC on his output

message: The article reads - "Wallace's father, Captain Joseph Richards, was also born in Liverpool, though in 1838; he was also from an Irish Catholic family. He and his father John Richards were both Merchant Navy captains, and his mother Catherine Richards came from a mariner family.
When Mary was eight months pregnant, in January 1868, her husband died at sea."
As Wallace was born in 1875, describing Richards as his father seems erroneous, and the article goes on to name his actual father as the actor Richard Horatio Edgar, after whom he was named. RGCorris (talk) 19:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father ?  

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message: It is stated that Edgar Wallace bonded with young Clara. Clara Richardson was born in 1836 and Edgar born 39 years later. IE in the 1881 census Edgar is 6 whilst Clara is 45.
Also it stated that Edgar took the surname Wallace from Lew Wallace. This is also wrong.
On his church baptism he is named Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace, father Walter (comedian).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.187.234.239 (talk) 07:27, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clara (Richardson) Freeman 

message: The 1923 title Captains of souls also appears as (The) Captain of souls on various web pages (e.g. Amazon), including dust jackets/covers. I assume that the versions differ among publishers in Great Britain and the US, especially. --Hodsha (talk) 18:59, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime novel 

message: The link associated with "Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him" does not provide any support for that statement.
203.221.122.109 (talk) 03:59, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant link