The Devil Man

Edgar Wallace’s 1931 novel „The Devil Man” is the mysterious and thrilling story of Charles Pearce, an small, unnerving, musician, gifted but terribly boastful. Pearce is physically repulsive, tiny in stature, but a Samson in strength. Woman can’t resist him, but they don’t know the real Pearce. He is also a burglar. And a murderer. There is a baffling mystery that someone urgently needs to solve… Full of dispense, action and amusing characters, „The Devil Man” constitutes a veritable page-turner that fans of crime fiction won’t want to miss. Interesting novelized biography of Charles Pearce, an infamous 19th century British burglar.