


With apologies to the self-aggrandizing Nigel, surely the first person to start with in this respect is Robert George Curtis, Wallace's longtime secretary.

After Edgar Wallace's untimely demise in 1932 at the age of 56, mystery thriller authors launched a sort of literary succession struggle, each of them claiming to be the one true heir of the Crime King- including, as readers of this blog know, notorious truth-fudger Nigel Morland (about whom I will have yet more to say here.)
