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The Daffodil Mystery

by Edgar Wallace

The Daffodil Mystery is a 1920 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It features the detective Jack Tarling and his Chinese assistant Ling Chu. It was adapted into a West German film The Devil's Daffodil (1961), part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film.

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Language

English

Original Language

English

Published In

1920

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Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was an English writer. 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...

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