The Keepers of the King's Peace

<p>Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1 1875 - February 10 1932) was an English crime writer journalist novelist screenwriter and playwright who wrote 175 novels 24 plays and numerous articles in newspapers and journals.</p><p> </p><p>Over 160 films have been made of his novels. In the 1920s one of Wallace's publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. He is most famous today as the co-creator of King Kong writing the early screenplay and story for the movie as well as a short story King Kong (1933) credited to him and Draycott Dell. He was known for the J. G. Reeder detective stories The Four Just Men The Ringer and for creating the Green Archer character during his lifetime. (wikipedia.org)</p><p> </p><p>Excerpts:</p><p>'I want you to go up the Isango Bones' said Sanders 'there may be some trouble there - a woman is working miracles.' Unexpected things happen in the territories of the Belgian Congo where Commissioner Sanders keeps an uneasy peace aided by his trusty assistant Lieutenant Hamilton and hindered unintentionally by the trouble-prone Bones. He must deal with 'ju-ju' 'religious-palava' lost vials of virulent disease...and all the while Bosambo the magnificent king of the Ochori watches on....</p>