The Terrible People (novel)

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The Terrible People
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First edition (UK)
Author Edgar Wallace
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton (UK)
Doubleday, Page (US)
Publication date
1926
Media typePrint

The Terrible People is a 1926 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. [1]

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Adaptations

The novel was turned into The Terrible People an American film serial in 1928 and The Terrible People (1960), part of the long-running German series of Edgar Wallace adaptations of the 1960s.

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References

  1. Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 488. ISBN   3598114923.