Order of Edgar Wallace Books
Edgar Wallace was an English crime writer, war correspondent, journalist, screenwriter and much more in his lifetime.
Wallace left school at the age of just 12 and joined the army at 21. He would work as a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for the Daily Mail and also Reuters. Wallace then found himself in debt and left the war beat to return to London where he would begin writing thrillers to raise his income with his breakthrough being the book The Four Just Men. He was a very prolific writer in his time with over 50 million copies sold of his works and one of the greatest authors in the history of the United Kingdom. Walace passed away in 1932 in Beverly Hills. In an interesting trivia note, he was working on the film that would become King Kong for RKO Pictures at the time.
Publication Order of The Four Just Men Books
| The Four Just Men | (1905) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Council of Justice | (1908) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Just Men of Cordova | (1917) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Law of the Four Just Men / Again the Three Just Men | (1921) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Three Just Men | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of T.B. Smith Books
| The Nine Bears / The Other Man / The Cheaters / Silinski, Master Criminal | (1910) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Admirable Carfew | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Commissioner Sanders Books
| Sanders of the River | (1911) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The People of the River | (1912) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The River of Stars | (1913) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bosambo of the River | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sandi the King-Maker | (1922) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sanders / Mr. Commissioner Sanders | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Again Sanders | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Keepers of the King's Peace | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Lieutenant Bones Books
| Bones | (1915) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bones in London | (1921) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bones of the River | (1923) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of J.G. Reeder Books
| Room 13 | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mind of Mr. J G Reeder / The Murder Book of J.G. Reeder | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Casefiles of Mr. J.G. Reeder | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Terror Keep | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Guv'nor / Mr. Reeder Returns | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr J G Reeder Returns | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Red Aces | (1932) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Elk Books
| The Fellowship of the Frog | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Joker / The Colossus | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Twister | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| White Face | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Educated Evans Books
| More Educated Evans | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Good Evans / The Educated Man | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Supt. Minter Books
| Big Foot | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lone House Mystery | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Ringer Books
| The Ringer | (1925) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Again the Ringer / The Ringer Returns | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Smithy Books
| Smithy, Nobby and Co. | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Mystery League Books
(with F. Van Wyck Mason, Miles Burton)
| The Day of Uniting | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hand of Power | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hardway Diamonds Mystery | (1930) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The House Of Terror | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bungalow on the Roof | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Collections
| Writ In Barracks | (1900) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heroes All Gallant Deeds of the War | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Trial of the Seddons | (1924) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories | (1929) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Humorous Stories | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fighting Snub Reilly and Other Stories | (1934) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Sooper and Others | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Death Room | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Vampire of Wembley | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Chapbooks
| The Orator | (1928) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| Famous Scottish Regiments | (1914) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Standard History of the War | (1916) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| People: A Short Autobiography | (1926) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| This England | (1927) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kitchener's Army | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories | (1941) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| World's Great Mystery Stories | (1943) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction | (1948) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| City Sleuths and Tough Guys | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Short Stories: After Dark Classics | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
If You Like Edgar Wallace Books, You’ll Love…
Sanders of the River was one of Wallace’s more popular books. The book sees Commissioner Sanders who is sent by the British Government to Africa to keep an eye on “cannibal folk” who think of the white man as the equivalent to unicorns as they’d never seen one until ten years ago. The book captures the feelings of the time as world powers were vying for colonial honor and control.
The aforementioned The Four Just Men was one of Wallace’s earliest hits. The book tells the tales of four men who are committed to making sure that public figures remain as upright as they are. This book sees the men threaten to kill a minister if he passes an unjust law. The minister does what he can to save himself, but whether he succeeds or not makes for an excellent and clever thriller.