The Dark Eyes of London Stated First Edition Edgar Wallace buying Published by Crime Club, Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York (1929)

About this Item: Crime Club, Doubleday, Doran and Co, New York, 1929. Hardcover. First American Edition; Good in black cloth.
The Dark Eyes Of London is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in Britain in 1924. An unbalanced doctor and his brother murder a series of wealthy men to benefit from their life insurance policies, using a charity for the blind as a front for their activities. The persistent Inspector Holt of Scotland Yard is soon on their trail. It was based on an earlier short story The Croakers which Wallace had written.

Wallace was the first British crime novelist to use policemen as his protagonists, rather than amateur sleuths as most other writers of the time did. Most of his novels are independent stand-alone stories; he seldom used series heroes, and when he did he avoided a strict story buying order, so that continuity was not required from book to book.