The Secret HousePaperback, 13 July 1905

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. Drawing on his time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines such as The Windsor Magazine and later published collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). In addition to the creation of King Kong, he is remembered as a writer of 'the colonial imagination', for the J. G. Reeder detective stories, and for The Green Archer serial.