Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: Diario El Pais
Release Date: 01-12-2004
Details: BLACK SERIES THE COUNTRY , 172pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (Greenwich , England , UK, April 1, 1875 Beverly Hills , United States , February 10, 1932 ) was a novelist , playwright and journalist British , father of the modern thriller and acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller of mystery. He is also the author of the original script of the film King- Kong.Edgar Wallace created the " thriller " with his novel The Four Just Men (1905 ) , and consolidated this narrative genre with his later work. Detective investigations in his novels always require professionalism, and are deployed with the assistance of police equipment , which distinguishes them from the stream of " novel problem" or "enigma novel" , where it is assumed that the reader has all indications necessary to solve the mystery itself , rivaling the protagonist of the story , usually an amateur detective. However , Wallace itself often gives the reader the opportunity to exercise their own powers of detection. Recall the example of the problems posed locked room at The Four Just Men (1905 ) The Four Just Men , The Clue of the Twisted Candle ( 1917 ) ( translated as The Mystery of the folded sail) and The Clue of the New Pin (1923 ) ( the track pin ) . However, even in these novels preponderates action on the analysis. This is because, as a cultivator of the thriller ( disquieting narration) , Wallace gives preference to the dramatic tension and narrative unit on the slow exposure of characteristic signs of the "enigma novel" . This external structure is often referred to deceive critics who have believed to see in him an author of novels criminal adventures that a cultivator of detective novels. In Wallace, the elements of the enigma are diluted in action. They are apparently incongruous events, and it is this inconsistency which acts as a spur to the reader's curiosity . Only at the end fit puzzle pieces , and a new reading of the narrative emphasizes that the evidence had
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