Spannend und mysteriös, aber auch ein bisschen in die Jahre gekommen. Dadurch hat es aber auch einen gewissen Charme.
Über die Liebesgeschichte, die Edgar Wallace hier integriert hat, habe ich mich amüsieren können. Herrlich altmodisch :)

It was ok, but there were parts that I found hard to focus on. I don't know if it was the book or my not feeling well that was the reason.

Middling Edgar Wallace (definitely not what I'd recommend to someone trying him for the first time).

It's an interesting prototype of the kind of mystery that John Dickson Carr would later write: a mystery where there are several suspects with varying degrees of plausibility, but each obvious clue le

What a great little mystery, and what a surprise! I had never read a book by Edgar Wallace before.

Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily M

That was fun! And mystifying! My - what a complicated set of twists and layers of false clues! It kept me guessing right to the very end.
I did not see this cover when I picked this book. The one I saw was a pretty generic cover with a daffodil on the front. Cute, but that obviously didn’t even hi

Nach dem ich bereits andere Detektiv-Geschichten, zum Beispiel von Doyle, Christie, gelesen habe, war es nur eine Frage der Zeit bis ich tatsächlich auch auf Wallace aufmerksam wurde.
Mein erstes Werk sollte also "das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen" sein.
Eigentlich möchte ich gar nicht zu sehr mit

I was stirred to interest by the flowery title of this novel, and I knew that Wallace had written a lot of early 20th century British crime novels (turns out, he helped write the film King Kong too!). I was, unfortunately, disappointed as I started and continued to read it, as the plot jumped around