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The theme music man of mystery was a hit record for the uk instrumental group the shadows in 1960. The edgar wallace mystery theatre tv series 19591965 imdb. Aged eleven, wallace sold newspapers at ludgate circus. Richard horatio edgar wallace was born illegitimately in greenwich, london, in 1875 to actors mary jane richards and t. The edgar wallace mystery theatre 1960 in 1960 a crime series based on the novels of edgar wallace was created which certainly stands the test of time. The edgar wallace mystery theatre season 1, episode 1. Episode and series guides for the edgar wallace mystery theatre. The series consists of the approximately 40 edgar wallace films made by merton. Amnon kabatchnik edgar wallace in blood on the stage, 19251950.
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The thrillers of edgar wallace, one of the twentieth centurys most successful crime novelists, have been widely adapted for film and television the most memorable of which is the edgar wallace mysteries, made at merton park studios in the first half of the 1960s. As he piles on the psychological pressure, the criminals begin to look for ways to betray each other and escape with a fortune in diamonds. As an author, he wrote more than 150 detective novels, selling as many as 5 million in one year. The edgar wallace mystery theatre tv show australian tv guide. The edgar wallace mysteries were a series of british mystery films that each had different mysteries that needed solving by the often different characters in each episode.
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