Edgar Wallace 
Big-Foot 

Pauvre Gordon Cardew ! Veuf, ancien notaire, il devrait profiter dune retraite méritée ! Sa nouvelle passion, la criminologie, lamène à fréquenter de brillants policiers comme Minter, dit Super, ou Lattimer, son adjoint. Sa secrétaire, Elfa Leigh, le seconde avec efficacité. Une jeune femme charmante pense Jim Ferraby, le jeune procureur.Et Cardew possède une belle propriété, Barley Stack où son voisin, le richissime américain Stephan Elsen, est de bonne compagnie et sa gouvernante Mais, voilà ! sa gouvernante, justement ! Hannah Shaw, une femme corpulente dont la beauté Hum. Quant à son caractère ! Pauvre pauvre Cardew !

About the author

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.