Edgar Wallace

The clue of the new pin (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The establishment of Yeh Ling was just between the desert of Reed Street, and the sown of that great and glittering thoroughfare which is theatreland. The desert graduated down from the respectable, if gloomy, houses where innumerable milliners, modistes and dentists had their signs before the doors and their workrooms and clinics on divers landings, to the howling wilderness of Bennet Street, and in this particular case the description often applied so lightly is aptly and faithfully affixed, for Bennet Street howled by day and howled in a shriller key by night. Its roadway was a playground for the progeny of this prolific neighbourhood, and a "ring" in which all manner of local blood-feuds were settled by waist-bare men, whilst their slatternly women squealed their encouragement or vocalized their apprehensions. Yeh Ling's restaurant had begun at the respectable end of the street and he had specialized in strange Chinese dishes. Later it had crept nearer and nearer to The Lights, one house after another having been acquired by the unhappy looking oriental, its founder.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Librorium Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782385741853
• Artikelnr.: 68298212

Autorenporträt

Richard Horacio Edgar Freeman, né le 1¿¿ avril 1875 à Greenwich et mort le 10 février 1932 à Hollywood, est un écrivain et journaliste britannique, également scénariste et réalisateur de cinéma. Il est l'auteur de nombreux romans policiers et récits d'aventures publiés sous le pseudonyme de Edgar Wallace.