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Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humour, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honours, Sanders and his assistants attempt to administer an uneasy peace in a climate of ju-ju and witch doctors, and all the while Bosambo, chief of the Ochori, watches closely.
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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born illegitimately in Greenwich, London, in 1875to actors Mary Jane Richards and T. H. Edgar. As an infant he wasadopted by George Freeman, a porter at Billingsgate fish market. Aged eleven, Wallace sold newspapers at Ludgate Circus and upon leaving school took a job with a printer. He later enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, beforetransferring to the Medical Staff Corps, and was sent to South Africa. In 1898 he published a collection of poems called The Mission that Failed, and subsequently left the army to become acorrespondent for Reuters.South African war correspondent for The Daily Mail followed and hisarticles were later published as Unofficial Dispatches. His outspokenness infuriated Lord Kitchener, who removed his credentialsas a war correspondent. He thenedited the Rand Daily Mail, but gambled disastrously on the South African Stock Market. Returning to England, he at first reportedon crimes and hanging trials, before becomingeditor of The Evening News. It was in 1905 that he founded the Tallis Press, publishing Smithy, a collection of soldier stories, and The Four Just Men. The latter waspublished with the ending removed as anadvertising stunt and he offered £500 to readers who could successfully guess the ending. Unfortunately, many did and he was almost bankrupted. At various times Wallacealso worked as a journalist on The Standard, The Star, The Week-End Racing Supplement and The Story Journal. In 1917, he became a Special Constable at Lincoln's Inn and also a special interrogator for the War Office. The Daily Mail sent Wallace to investigate atrocities in the Belgian Congo, a trip that provided material for his Sanders of the River books. In 1923 he became Chairman of the Press Club and in 1931 stood as a Liberal Parliamentary candidatefor Blackpool. mHis first marriage in 1901 to Ivy Caldecott, daughter of a missionary, ended in divorce in 1918 and he later married his much younger secretary, Violet King. Along with countlessarticles, some 23 screenplays and many short stories,Wallacewrote more than 170 books, which have been translated into 28 languages and sales of which have exceeded 50 million copies. Over 160 films have been made from his books - more than any other author. In the 1920's one of Wallace's many publishers claimed that a quarter of all books read in England were written by him. His sales were exceeded only by The Bible. He died in 1932 whilst workingon the screenplay for King Kong,
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Format:Paperback
This novel was originally published in 1926, during the great days of the British Empire. The first time that I read it, together with others in the Sanders series, was almost 60 years ago when I was in my late teens. I have now reread it for the first time since and find that it has lost none of its charm. The series is extremely well written as were all of Edgar Wallace's novels. Thrillers of the modern kind they are not, but they are wonderfully entertaining adventure stories of an aspect of a byegone age that has seldom been written about.
Format:Paperback
A wonderful opportunity to recall the magic of Edgar Wallace's stories of
Commissioner Sanders, Bosambo of the river and Captain Hamilton, not to speak of Lieut. 'Bones'. These stories, first read 70 years ago, stand the test of time and are still wonderfully evocative of the time, place and personalities charged with bringing the Pax Britannica to the remotest (then) corners of those areas then painted red in the early maps of Africa.
Commissioner Sanders, Bosambo of the river and Captain Hamilton, not to speak of Lieut. 'Bones'. These stories, first read 70 years ago, stand the test of time and are still wonderfully evocative of the time, place and personalities charged with bringing the Pax Britannica to the remotest (then) corners of those areas then painted red in the early maps of Africa.
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5 May 2012
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The Sanders series, viewed from today's perspective, is essentially about a make believe world, with clear cut delineations of good and evil, well defined codes of conduct and absence of any great emotional conflict. It should definitely not be seen through the currently fashionable prism of racism and/ or post colonialism. They are just thundering good stories, related with good humour and a hint of self deprecation applied to the workings of the erstwhile British Empire. I would strongly suggest not only a "willing suspension of disbelief" but also a conscious shutting of eyes to one's perception of historical rights and wrongs in order to enjoy this series of immensely readable tales.
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