Wallace Intervenes was published in 1939 shortly after people in Great Britain realised that the Munich agreement was not going to prevent another war with Germany. With the striking dust-wrapper cover of the Nazi Swastika Alexander Wilson’s ‘Best Spy Story’ has the British Secret Service sending a male honeytrap to infiltrate the intimacy and heart…
Category: Wallace of the Secret Service novels
Chronicles of the Secret Service – three Wallace spy stories in one in 1940
Chronicles of the Secret Service was first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1940. This is how they explained ‘What This Story Is About’: Such novels as Wallace of the Secret Service, Get Wallace, His Excellency Governor Wallace and Wallace Intervenes have achieved their extraordinary wide sales not only because they are thrillers of the front…
Wallace at Bay – Secret Service war against terrorists in London 1938
‘Wallace at Bay’ is about gripping counter-intelligence operations taking place in and around the Little Venice area of Maida Vale- in streets and locations wholly familiar to Alexander Wilson during the last 1930s. This is a novel that gives the reader an evocative and realistic experience of being on the streets of London in 1938….
Microbes of Power – deadly espionage in Cyprus 1937
“Microbes of Power” is a pioneering espionage novel analysing the threat to world peace posed by biological weapons. It was unique in the Secret Service thriller genre of the 1930s to explore the threat posed by using bacteria and viruses in war. The novel also stood out for offering positive representation of women intelligence agents…
His Excellency Governor Wallace – Secret Service battle in Hong Kong in 1936
Alexander Wilson’s 1936 Wallace of the Secret Service novel switches the dramatic fight to preserve the British Empire by Sir Leonard Wallace to what was then the highly lucrative colony of Hong Kong- on lease from China. Herbert Jenkins explained ‘What This Story Is About’: Although some months separated the publications of Alexander Wilson’s rousing…
Get Wallace! Alexander Wilson’s fourth Secret Service novel published in 1934
‘Get Wallace’ firmly established Alexander Wilson’s fictional British Secret Service as something English speaking readers could identify with. It was rapidly becoming an imaginative force policing the world and keeping people safe from the evils of organised crime. The first publisher Herbert Jenkins explained ‘What This Story Is About’ Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous chief…
Mystery of Tunnel 51 – the first Wallace of the Secret Service novel 1928
The first publishers of Alexander Wilson’s first novel ‘The Mystery of Tunnel 51’ issued the following details about the book in their periodical for libraries and the book-trade called ‘Longmans List’: Notes on Books, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, July 1928 The Mystery of Tunnel 51 By Alexander Wilson, Crown 8vo, pp. vi + 345,…
The Devil’s Cocktail – The Great Game in late 1920s British India
This is one of the most significant and remarkable espionage novels of the 1920s. It is set in Lahore, the Punjab during the time of the Raj in British India and the action, suspense and drama is another intense Alexander Wilson narrative of the early 20th century Great Game of intelligence between the British Empire…
Wallace of the Secret Service – third espionage volume published 1933
‘Wallace of the Secret Service’ was the first Alexander Wilson espionage novel featuring Sir Leonard Wallace and his global imperial counter-intelligence service published by Herbert Jenkins in 1933. Such was its popularity the volume went into a second imprint in 1939. Its success can be attributed to the structure of ten self-contained stories and adventures…
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