The Secret of the Yellow Narcissus

Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) was an English writer, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Wallace surpassed the creator of Sherlock Holmes in popularity at the time. Edgar Wallace is one of the best-known English authors of the detective genre. The body of the owner of a large trading company, Thornton Layn, is found in London’s Hyde Park with a bullet in his chest. Someone has carefully placed a small bunch of yellow daffodils on the corpse’s crossed arms.