Edgar Wallace

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."

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Source: The Century magazine, 1892.

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Edgar Wallace

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Edgar Wallace was a British writer known for his detective novels and screenplays, particularly 'The Four Just Men', which shaped the crime genre.

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