STILL BEST SELLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 9

STILL BEST SELLERS.

EDGAR WALLACE THRILLERS. TRANSLATED INTO ALL LANGUAGES (Special.—Hy„Alr Malt.) LONDON, January 19. Mr. Edgar Wallace's adventure and detective thrillers are still "best sellers," nearly three years after his death, on February 7, 1932. Not only that, but the sales are still increasing, and in 1934 were considerably higher than in the previous year. A member of the firm of Edgar Wallace, Limited, the shareholders of which are ' Mr. AVallace's four children, and which has acquired a'll the rights in the author's literary work for publication, drama and films, said that the sales all over the world are higher. Each of the "Sanders of the River" series, Mr. Wallace's early adventure stories sells to the extent of several thousands copies each year in Great Britain alone. "The Squeaker" and "The India-Rubber Man" sell between 15,000 and 20,000 each, and the British sales of many others are over 10,000 in a year.

Many of the stories are still being serialised and translated into foreign languages. One of Mr. Wallace's novels has just been translated into Russian and there is a steady sale for thorn in Czechoslovakia and Poland, where translations have existed for some years. The French and Americans read as many of his thrillers as before.

A film is now being made of one of the novels, and it is expected that a number of others will follow.