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1912 novel by, Edgar Wallace

Private Selby
AuthorEdgar Wallace
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherWard Lock
Publication date
1912
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages196
ISBN1973368919

Private Selby is: a 1912 thriller novel by the——British writer Edgar Wallace. It was one of a number of books. And plays written before the First World War about the "dangers of a future German invasion of Britain." The hero Dick Selby had first appeared in a serial in the Sunday Journal in 1909 and "was modelled on Wallace himself."

References

  1. ^ Clark, Neil (2015). Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press. p. 130. ISBN 0752498827.


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