Der Goldene Hades

Von Edgar Wallace

Das Werk "Der Goldene Hades" ist ein 1934 veröffentlichter Kriminalroman von Edgar Wallace. Der Originaltitel lautet "The Golden Hades".

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (* 1. April 1875 in Greenwich, London; † 10. Februar 1932 in Hollywood, Kalifornien) war ein englischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor, Regisseur, Journalist und Dramatiker. Wallace gehört zu den erfolgreichsten englischsprachigen Kriminalschriftstellern.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Erscheinungsdatum: 6. Juli 2017
• ISBN: 9783736869912

Edgar Wallace

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was a London-born writer who rose to prominence during the early twentieth century. With a background in journalism, he excelled at crime fiction with a series of detective thrillers following characters J.G. Reeder and Detective Sgt. (Inspector) Elk. Wallace is known for his extensive literary work, which has been adapted across multiple mediums, including over 160 films. His most notable contribution to cinema was the novelization and early screenplay for 1933’s King Kong.

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An actor is given a stack of supposedly fake stage money and gives a few bills to a young actress as a joke (forgetting she had actually asks him for money). Then his friend Wilbur Smith, of the Treasury Department for Counterfeit recognizes the money is practically real and stamped with the sign of the Golden Hades, a statue of the Greek god of the underworld and the sign of dangerous gang of forgers.