Robert George Curtis

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Robert George Curtis (born January 6, 1889 in Greenwich , † August 29, 1936 in London ) was the private secretary of the English detective writer Edgar Wallace . Curtis and Wallace met for the first time in 1913 before losing sight of each other with the outbreak of World War I as Curtis had to do his military service. In 1916 he was dismissed from service because of malaria. From 1918 he was hired by Wallace as a secretary and had the task of putting the texts spoken by Wallace on a dictation machine on paper. He did this job with such speed that he was considered the fastest secretary in England. He accompanied Wallace on most of his travels and rarely left his side. After Wallace's death, he completed a few unfinished manuscripts and worked several plays and film manuscripts into novels in the style of Edgar Wallace.

Plays and film manuscripts reworked into novels

  • The Green Pack . 1933.
  • The Man Who Changed His Name . 1934.
  • The mouthpiece . 1935.
  • Smoky Cell . 1935.
  • Sanctuary Island . 1936.
  • The table . 1936.

Other works

  • Edgar Wallace Each Way . 1932.
  • 'Edgar Wallace Each Way'. 2010.

German translation by Wilfried Schotten

literature

  • Joachim Kramp, Jürgen Wehnert: The Edgar Wallace Lexicon . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-508-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Curtis, Robert George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Edgar Wallace's private secretary
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1936
Place of death London