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Author | Edgar Wallace |
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Language | English |
Genre | Crime |
Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Doubleday Doran (US) |
Publication date | 1930 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type |
The Clue of the Silver Key is a 1930 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. [1]
Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when petty thief Tom Tickler is killed and left in a taxi with £100 in his pocket. His discoveries eventually lead him towards the mysterious businessman Washington Wirth.
In 1961 it was made into a film Clue of the Silver Key directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Bernard Lee and Finlay Currie. [2] It was made as part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries film series produced by Anglo-Amalgamated.