Edgar Wallace's amazing career brought him from extreme poverty to spectacular success. He started as a newsboy, then later became a ship's cook, milkman, soldier, reporter, special correspondent to the "London Daily Mail," author and writer of best-selling fiction. His output of stories was fabulous. His income at one stage reached £50,000 a year. His remarkable career ended with his sudden death in Hollywood. The Crimson Circle is yet another of Edgar Wallace's sensational mystery stories, thrilling in action, with dramatic suspense to the last exciting page.