Writ in Barracks A Collection of Poems

Edgar Wallace''s first published books were not thrillers or the Sanders of the river books, but collections of poetry. Wallace was very much a soldier poet. Wallace began publishing songs and poetry, much inspired by Rudyard Kipling, whom he met in Cape Town in 1898. Wallace''s first book of ballads, The Mission that Failed!, was published that same year. In 1899, he bought his way out of the for...