| THE TRAITOR'S GATE by Edgar Wallace
About the Author of this book EDGAR WALLACE (1875-1932) was born in London. His parents died when he was very young and he was sent to a workhouse; but a few years later he was adopted by a fish porter who sent him to a board school in Peckham. As he grew up he tried various jobs: in a rubber factory, on a Grimsby trawler, as a milk-boy, and as a newspaper seller. He joined the army in 1899 and was sent to South Africa. At the end of the war, in 1902, he decided to turn to journalism and returned to South Africa as war correspondent for Reuter's agency. His first story was The Four Just Men which he published at his own expense in 1905. After this, for the space of twenty years, Wallace wrote or dictated about 150 novels of which over thirty have now been made into films or plays. He found his true metier in 'thrillers', peculiarly his own creation, which he himself called "pirate stories in modern dress." FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1927
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