It is the golden age of the silent movie. But when the heads of corpses start piling up without an explanation, the film industry’s charm wavers. And when Francis Elmer disappears and a note signed The Head Hunter surfaces, more questions than answers remain. Packed with suspense, tension, and thrills, Edgar Wallace’s nail-biting crime novel ‘The Avenger’ is perfect for whodunnit fans of Agatha Christie s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ and ‘Death on the River Nile’.Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer so prolific, that his publisher claimed that he was responsible for a quarter of all books sold in England. An author, journalist and poet, Wallace wrote countless novels, short stories, screen plays, stage plays, along with historical non-fiction. His work has been adapted into more than 160 films. In 1932, Wallace died suddenly in Hollywood, during the initial drafting of his most famous work, ‘King Kong’.
