Edgar Wallace
Survey on some authors – please help?
I’m researching some 20th Century writers and I’d like to know how well-known, if at all they are. Please look at the list below and say which, if any, you’ve heard of and what you know of them. If you’ve never heard of any of them, please answer!
1. Hall Caine
2. Edgar Wallace
3. E. Phillips Oppenheim
4. Sydney Horler
5. Compton MacKenzie
6. “Sapper”
Cheers
Thanks so far, folks. the reason I’m looking for how much people have heard of them is that they were all hugely famous authors of their time and all wrote books handed down to me from my grandad. They seem forgotten now and I am trying to find out to what extent their fame remains. The comment from the eng lit student who has never heard of them is very interesting. I’m currently researching their lives and work with the aim of writing a book.
This is off the top of my head – I haven’t looked any of them up.
I know Compton MacKenzie wrote ‘Whisky Galore’ and I have read something more serious by him but the title escapes me. Flourished in the 1930s-1940s.
‘Sapper’ wrote the ‘Bulldog Drummond’ stories, part of the genre that has been memorably described as ‘snobbery with violence’. I seem to remember that he had a fiancée called Phyllis.
Edgar Wallace was massively popular between the 1st and 2nd World Wars. A thriller writer. “The Four Just Men” is the only title that springs to mind.
E. Phillips Oppenheim rings quite a loud bell, but I can’t place him,
Hall Caine a very distant bell.
Sydney Horler I am not aware of ever having heard of.
Added:
That’s ‘Bulldog’ Drummond who had the fiancée called Phyllis, not ‘Sapper’.
I’d be much better on the ‘golden age’ puzzle detective story writers of that period than the thriller or ‘shocker’ genre. At some point I am going to remember why E. Phillips Oppenheim is such a familiar name but I’m getting mixed up with S F X van Dusen and Philo Vance, and that is Jacques Fontrelle (?) who only stays in my mind because he went down the Titanic.
Sorry about the ‘stream of conciousness’ – I have no idea what sort of survey you are doing.
Edgar Wallace: “Angels of Terror” – Trailer (1971)
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