The Avenger

A movie set, a mysterious death and a note signed by 'The Head Hunter', Edgar Wallace offers the ingredients for a thrilling detective fiction.

Edgar Wallace, the original writer of King Kong and hundreds of vintage crime, science fiction and adventure novels, created The Avenger as a page-turning thriller about the mysterious death of Francis Elmer, a dark secret and a movie set. The discovery of a mysterious note signed 'The Head Hunter' lights up the chase for the murderer and a further s...