Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) — an English writer, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, who surpassed Doyle in popularity for a time as the creator of the very Sherlock Holmes. Edgar Wallace is one of the best-known English authors of the detective genre.
The lives of two people—Mr. Stratford Garlowe and Mr. Marling—are tragically intertwined by the will of fate, which leads to a chain of strange deaths.