THE DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS de EDGAR WALLACE
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- THE DOOR WITH SEVEN LOCKS
- EDGAR WALLACE
- Idioma: INGLÉS
- Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
- ISBN: 8596547007548
- Editorial: DIGICAT
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Overview
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallaces work._x000D_ Excerpt:_x000D_ "He waited suggestively, but Lew Pheeney shook his head. "Im not telling. The story would give away a man whos not a good fellow, and not one I admire; but I cant let my personal feelings get the better of me, and youll have to go on guessing. And Im not lying, Ill tell you how it happened." He gulped down a cup of hot coffee and pushed cup and saucer away from him. "I dont know this fellow who asked me to do the work — not personally. Hes been in trouble for something or other, but thats no business of mine. One night he met me, introduced himself, and I went to his house — brr!" he shivered. "Martin, a crook is a pretty clean man — at least, all the crooks I know; and thievings just a game with two players; me and the police. If they snooker me, good luck to em! If I can beat them, good luck to me! But theres some dirt that makes me sick, just makes my stomach turn over. When he told me the job he wanted me for, I thought he was joking…"_x000D_
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