Wallace
WIFE: "But there is nothing anyone : could blackmail me for." Husband: "I know, my dear, but-" This characteristic exchange formed part of an episode in the Edgar Wallace serial "Traitor’s Gate," which has just ended at 3YA. Experts may not need to be told that the husband was in charge of the Tower of London and that someone had annéxed or was annexing the Crown Jewels. "It is impossible," says the announcer in ritual phrase, "not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace," and the odd thing is that he is almost right. I suppose that no mass-producing writer has ever kept up quite the same level; the characters are eternally repetitious, the situations often purely comic, but the sheer technical skill and gusto of the thing keeps one in a condition of sustained admiration. Perhaps there are one thousand better thriller-writers than the late Wallace; but I think he was a genius.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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153Wallace New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 331, 26 October 1945, Page 9
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