Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio (English Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace) (1875–1932) - English writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist. Better known as Edgar Wallace. A contemporary of A. Conan Doyle, who at one time surpassed the creator of Sherlock Holmes in popularity. Author of 175 short stories, 24 plays and a huge number of articles in periodicals. The founder of the literary genre "thriller". He was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most filmed writer (170 films). Edgar Wallace is one of the most popular English authors of the detective genre, the author of the famous “King Kong”. “There is nothing more exciting than Wallace’s novels!” - declared the English press of the 20-30s.