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King Kong by Edgar Wallace

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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How far the mighty have fallen! And I’m not talking about King Kong toppling off the summit of the Empire State Building. I’m referring to the afterlife of the great British novelist Edgar Wallace.

No one climbed higher than Wallace in the literary world of the 1920s. At one point his publisher estimated that one out of every four fiction books sold in E…

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