The Melody of Death (1915) is a crime novel by Edgar Wallace.
Written at the height of Wallace's career as one of England's
leading popular fiction writers, The Melody of Death showcases his
effective narrative style and innate sense of the strange in
everyday life. Like many of Wallace's stories and novels, The
Melody of Death was adapted into a silent film in 1922 by Stoll
Pictures. The year is 1911. Night has fallen in London, and two
skilled safecrackers enter a diamond merchant's office after
receiving a tip about a recent delivery. As they work the safe in
silence, the pair become aware of a presence behind them. Turning,
they find a masked man pointing a gun in their direction.
Strangely, however, he wants nothing more than to watch them, to
learn their methods for his own unspecified purposes. Meanwhile,
Gilbert Standerton discovers, on the day of his wedding, no less,
that his new wife Edith has married him for his money alone, and
that she has been encouraged by her meddling mother to do so.
Disillusioned, disheartened, and filled with rage, Gilbert hears
the opening strains of the melancholy "Melody in F," a strange song
that never fails to send him into an even stranger state of
emotion. As the story unfolds, and as Gilbert becomes increasingly
distant, a life in business becomes a life of crime, revealing the
dual nature of one disturbed, desperate man. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Edgar Wallace's The Melody of Death is a classic work of crime
fiction reimagined for modern readers.
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