The India-Rubber Men

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The India-Rubber Men
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Author Edgar Wallace
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SeriesInspector Elk
GenreCrime
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
1929
Media typePrint

The India-Rubber Men is a 1929 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It was part of a series of books featuring the character Inspector Elk of Scotland Yard.

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Film adaptations

In 1938 it was turned into a film The Return of the Frog starring Gordon Harker. [1]

It was loosely adapted into the 1962 West German film The Inn on the River , part of Rialto Film's long-running series of Wallace adaptations.

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References

  1. Goble p.487

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