Edgar Wallace 
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Ce polar nous emmène dans Londres et ses clubs privés. Gold, un agent américain est à la poursuite dune bande de faussaires qui sévit depuis l Angleterre. Leurs faux billets, anglais et américains, sont presque parfaits. Sur la piste de son enquête : une orpheline, un milliardaire torturé, un faussaire génial et alcoolique, un suspect retors Gold sera-t-il un détective efficace ? Ou pourra-t-on se jouer de lui ? Et comment lorpheline pourra-t-elle aider le jeune milliardaire ? Au menu : rebondissements, filatures et poursuite sur la Tamise !

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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.