Edgar Wallace - The Standard History Of The War - Volume 1

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London.

Leaving school at 12 because of truancy, by the age of fifteen he had experience; selling newspapers, as a worker in a rubber factory, as a shoe shop assistant, as a milk delivery boy and as a ship's cook.

By 1894 he was engaged but brok