Captain Tatham of Tatham Island

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Captain Tatham of Tatham Island
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Author Edgar Wallace
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreAdventure
Publisher Gale and Polden
Publication date
1909
Media typePrint

Captain Tatham of Tatham Island, sometimes shortened to Captain Tatham, is a 1909 adventure novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It is not told in a straight linear narrative, as with most Wallace novels, but instead consists of a series of witness statements by various characters involved. [1] In subsequent rereleases its title was changed first to The Island of Galloping Gold and then Eve's Island.

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  1. Clark p. 111

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