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Dick Martin's last official job (as he believed) was to pull in Lew Pheeney, who was wanted in connection with the Helborough bank robbery. He found Lew in a little Soho cafe, just as he was finishing his coffee."What's the idea, colonel?" asked Lew, almost genially, as he got his hat."The inspector wants to talk to you about that Helborough job," said Dick.Lew's nose wrinkled in contempt."Helborough grandmothers!" he said scornfully. "I'm out of that bank business—thought you knew it. What are you doing in the force, Martin? They told me that you'd run into money and had quit.""I'm quitting.…mehr

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Dick Martin's last official job (as he believed) was to pull in Lew Pheeney, who was wanted in connection with the Helborough bank robbery. He found Lew in a little Soho cafe, just as he was finishing his coffee."What's the idea, colonel?" asked Lew, almost genially, as he got his hat."The inspector wants to talk to you about that Helborough job," said Dick.Lew's nose wrinkled in contempt."Helborough grandmothers!" he said scornfully. "I'm out of that bank business—thought you knew it. What are you doing in the force, Martin? They told me that you'd run into money and had quit.""I'm quitting. You're my last bit of business.""Too bad you're falling down on the last lap!" grinned Lew. "I've got forty-five well-oiled alibis. I'm surprised at you, Martin. You know I don't 'blow' banks; locks are my speciality—"

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875 - 1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at age 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialized short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognized author. Wallace was such a prolific writer that one of his publishers claimed that a quarter of all books in England were written by him. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work. He is remembered for the creation of King Kong, as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories and for The Green Archer serial. He sold over 50 million copies of his combined works in various editions, and The Economist describes him as "one of the most prolific thriller writers of [the 20th] century."