Private Selby
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| Author | Edgar Wallace |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Ward Lock |
Publication date | 1912 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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| Pages | 196 |
| ISBN | 1973368919 |
Private Selby is a 1912 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was one of a number of books and plays written before the First World War about the dangers of a future German invasion of Britain.[1] The hero Dick Selby had first appeared in a serial in the Sunday Journal in 1909 and was modelled on Wallace himself.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Clark, Neil (2015). Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press. p. 130. ISBN 0752498827.
External links
[edit]- Private Selby at Faded Page (Canada)
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