Edgar Wallace 
La porte aux sept serrures 

Dick Martin quitte Scotland Yard car il a fait un héritage. Lors de sa dernière mission, il rencontre la jeune bibliothécaire Sybille Lansdown qui a le don de le mettre à son désavantage. Hélas, il a accepté de partir à la poursuite du jeune et insaisissable lord Selford. Dès lors il va entrer de plain pied dans les mystères de la Porte aux sept serrures.

Circa l’autore

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.