Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Ringer - Edgar Wallace
Like Somerset Maugham, the hugely popular novelist and short story writer Edgar Wallace was for a time even more successful as a playwright, starting with his 1927 smash, The Ringer, adapted from his novel, The Gaunt Stranger. It was so successful in fact that Wallace reworked the novel to match the stage version and re-issued it under the new title.
Henry Arthur Milton, alias “The Ringer,” is a supertypical Wallace creation – a vigilante who metes out justice in his own way and is feared by both the criminal classes and Scotland Yard. He is also a master of disguise, so the police have no idea what he looks like. He was reported as having died in Sydney, Australia, but when his sister’s body is found floating in the Thames, he comes out of hiding. He blames shady lawyer Meister for her death and eventually Scotland Yard are inveigled into providing protection, in the hope of catching the Ringer. The cast of characters includes Bliss, a detective who has been based overseas but has come back just for the occasion sporting a brand new beard (…); Inspector Wembury, who plans to marry Meister’s secretary, Mary Lenley; and Dr Lomond, an elderly gent who wants to include the master criminal in one of his books. Soon the Ringer’s wife, Cora, also arrives on the scene, so everybody knows that her husband can’t be far behind.

“No woman is wholly saint, or, in this enlightened age, innocent of the evil