The Avenger: A Head-Hunter, a Film Studio, and Griff Towers
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A film company on location at Griff Towers, a Sussex country house whose master keeps an ape called Bhag, and a killer the newspapers call the Head Hunter — twelve heads in seven years, each left in a box for the police to find. Wallace was illegitimate, raised by a Billingsgate fish porter and out of school at twelve; at his height a quarter of all books borrowed in England were his, and he could finish a thriller over a long weekend. Fifty-six plates spanning 1863 to 1927, from Munch to Lavery, trace the faces and figures of the era that produced this story of pursuit and notoriety.
A film company on location at Griff Towers, a Sussex country house whose master keeps an ape called Bhag, and a killer the newspapers call the Head Hunter — twelve heads in seven years, each left in a box for the police to find. Wallace was illegitimate, raised by a Billingsgate fish porter and o...
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Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer born illegitimate in Greenwich and raised by a Billingsgate fish porter. A war correspondent in South Africa before he turned to fiction, he wrote some hundred and seventy books at enormous speed, and died in Hollywood while working on the story for King Kong. His works include The Four Just Men, The Clue of the Silver Key, and The Ringer.
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer born illegitimate in Greenwich and raised by a Billingsgate fish porter. A war correspondent in South Africa before he turned to fiction, he wrote some hundred and seventy books at enormous speed, and died in Hollywood while working on the story for...
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