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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 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 serialised 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 recognised author. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The story is straightforward, with Pallard slowly winning over the Callanders whose first impression of him is that of a degenerate gambler, slowly charming Gladys into courtship, and outsmarting Pinlow at one scheme after another by either being one step ahead of his schemes or being fortunately lucky at the right moment. The pacing is good, the twists and reveals are mostly plausible, and the characters are even nuanced enough for the reader to care about what happens. There's plenty of technical racetrack talk, and numerous asides exploring the hypocrisy of businessmen involved in market speculation (a.k.a. gambling) looking down their noses at other forms of gambling and competition as sinful and degenerate.
I'm not as much of a fan of Wallace's science fiction or "Africa Adventure" novels, but his crime novel output for the time period is solid and entertaining, and Pallard the Punter is no exception. ( )