James Meredith est condamné pour lassassinat de Ferdinand Balford, chargé par le témoignage de la convaincante Joan Briggerland au visage dange. Comment ne pas la croire quand elle dépeint, avec tant de vérité ingénue, les circonstances du crime passionnel accompli sous ses yeux par ce jaloux qui laimait trop ? Mais nest-elle pas plutôt un démon qui a tout inventé, animée par la perspective dhériter, avec son père, de James Meredith sil ne se marie pas dici quelques semaines ? Et comment le pourrait-il du fond de sa prison ? Cest ce que pense son ami lhomme de loi Jacques Glover. Il imagine une parade….
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 10 February 1932) was an English writer.Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. He joined the army at 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on time as a reporter in the Congo, covering the Belgian atrocities, Wallace serialised short stories in magazines, later publishing collections such as Sanders of the River (1911). He signed with Hodder and Stoughton in 1921 and became an internationally recognised author.