Martin:
> Well, Robin, actually the majority of Wallace's books take place in
> England, so that the fact they are English is no big mystery,
It's not just that they're English, but the *kind* of English they are ...
Actually, the Sanders sequence included more novels than anything else Edgar
Wallace ever wrote.
> and his
> detectives are by no means all "pukka Sahibs" - Mr.J.G.Reeder, for
> instance, is an apparently ordinary middle-aged coot (he works for the
> Public Prosecutor)
I love Reeder, but then I'm a sucker for anything that foregrounds
apparently boring balding middle-aged men.
I think the last hurrah in this area of Ghengis Khan's golden horde was
Steve Boncho's +Murder One+ (via the one that made the charts, John le
Carre's George Smiley), but that tracks back via Z Cars to Max Carrados.
Come to think on it, are we all so irridentist PC that no one is willing to
mention Sax Rhomer an da Yellow Peril?
Fantomas
> who can get tough with the plethora of toughs that
> are endangering the damsel in distress. I found these stories quite
> diverting many years ago. In general, as you suggest, a lot of pre-1939
> writing displayed racist prejudice in one form or another.
> jaywalker
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