Angel Esquire by Edgar Wallace

Angel Esquire follows a lawyer whose ambitious scheme to secure a fortune spirals into a web of deception and murder, forcing him and his allies to navigate betrayal and hidden truths in a desperate race against time. As they confront cunning adversaries and the stakes rise, their determination to protect their interests becomes increasingly perilous.

By Edgar Wallace · First published 1924 · Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime · 15 chapters · 60,912 words

First lines

MR. WILLIAM SPEDDING, of the firm of Spedding, Mortimer and Larach, Solicitors, bought the site in Lombard Street in the conventional way. The property came into the market on the death of an old lady who lived at Market Harborough, who has nothing to do with this story, and it was put up to auction in the orthodox fashion. Mr. William Spedding secured the site at 106,000, a sum sufficiently large to excite the interest of all the evening papers and a great number of the morning journals as well. As a matter of exact detail, I may add that plans were produced and approved by the city surveyor for the erection of a building of a peculiar type. The city surveyor was a little puzzled by the interior arrangement of the new edifice, but as it fulfilled all the requirements of the regulations governing buildings in the City of London, and no fault could be found either with the external appearance -- its facade had been so artfully designed that you might pass a dozen times a day without the thought occurring that this new building was anything out of the common ruck -- and as the systems of ventilation and light were beyond reproach, he passed the plans with a shrug of his shoulders.

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• Work type: Novel
• Author: Edgar Wallace
• Date: 1924 CE
• Language: English
• Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Adventure
• Length: 60,912 words
• Structure: 15 chapters, 1,451 paragraphs
• Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)

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Genres

• Mystery — The plot revolves around solving a crime or uncovering secrets, typical of the mystery genre.
• Thriller — The narrative includes suspenseful elements and tension, characteristic of thrillers.
• Crime — The story involves criminal activities and the investigation surrounding them.
• Drama — The themes explore human emotions and conflicts, aligning with dramatic storytelling.

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mystery · thriller · crime · detective · suspense · Edgar Wallace · fiction · novel · investigation · murder · London · secrets

Contents

• The Lombard Street Deposit
• The House in Terrington Square
• Angel Esquire
• The "Borough Lot"
• The Cryptogram
• A the Red Envelope
• What the Red Envelope Held
• Old George
• The Great Attempt
• Some Bad Characters
• The Quest of the Book
• What Happened at Flairby Mill
• Connor Takes a Hand
• Opening the Safe
• The Solution

More by Edgar Wallace

• The Greek Poropulos (1932)
• Sanders of the River (1911)
• The Twister (1928)
• Big Foot (1927)
• The Dark Eyes of London (1924)
• The Devil Man (1931)
• The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)
• The Joker (1926)
• All works by Edgar Wallace