The majority of films produced in the Federal Republic in the 1960s were genre works: westerns, especially the series of movies adapted from Karl May's popular genre novels which starred Pierre Brice as the Apache Winnetou and Lex Barker as his white blood brother Old Shatterhand ; thrillers and crime films, notably a series of Edgar Wallace movies in which Klaus Kinski, Heinz Drache, Wolfgang Völz, and Joachim Fuchsberger were among the regular players ; and softcore sex films, both the relatively serious Aufklärungsfilme ( sex education films ) of Oswalt Kolle and such exploitation films as Schulmädchen-Report ( Schoolgirl Report ) ( 1970 ) and its successors.

It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace, starring Donald Calthrop, Benita Home and Fred Raines, made by British Lion at their Beaconsfield Studios.

As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).

* April 1 – Edgar Wallace, English writer ( d. 1932 )

* February 10 – Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter ( b. 1875 )

1966 ); Crapsey, Adelaide: " Pierrot " ( c. 1914 ); Faulkner, William: Vision in Spring ( 1921 ); Ficke, Arthur Davison: " A Watteau Melody " ( 1913 ); Garrison, Theodosia: " Good-Bye, Pierrette " ( 1906 ), " When Pierrot Passes " ( before 1917 ); Griffith, William: Loves and Losses of Pierrot ( 1916 ), Three Poems: Pierrot, the Conjurer, Pierrot Dispossesed, The Stricken Pierrot ( 1923 ); Hughes, Langston: " A Black Pierrot " ( 1923 ), " Pierrot " ( 1926 ), " For Dead Mimes " ( 1926 ), " Heart " ( 1932 )— see " Goldweber " under External links below ; Loveman, Samuel: " In Pierrot's Garden " ( 1911 ; five poems ); Lowell, Amy: " Stravinsky's Three Pieces " ( 1915 ); Masters, Edgar Lee: " Poor Pierrot " ( 1918 ); Moore, Marianne: " To Pierrot Returning to His Orchid " ( c. 1910 ); Shelley, Melvin Geer: " Pierrot " ( 1940 ); Stevens, Wallace: " Pierrot " ( 1909, first pub.

William Kelley and Earl W. Wallace won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay presented by the Mystery Writers of America.

On the other hand, English crime writer Edgar Wallace, who was immensely popular with the English readership during the early decades of the 20th century ( and who achieved fame in German-speaking countries due to the many B movies made in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s that were based on his novels ), had almost been forgotten in his home country until House of Stratus eventually started republishing many of his 170 books around the turn of the millennium.

In 1932, he appeared in a remake of the 1929 film The Flying Squad ( based on the novel by Edgar Wallace ), reprising the role originated by future-Hitchcock regular John Longden.

* " Flowers Of Dixieland " ( w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson )-Franklyn Wallace on Edison

( The Four Just Men, first in a series of novels by Edgar Wallace )

* A 1976 TV Documentary called Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Made His Name, used the Bluebell railway as one of the filming locations.

* 6 June: Edgar Wallace became the first British radio sports reporter, when he made a report on the Epsom Derby.

He appeared in several German Edgar Wallace movies, and had bit parts in the American war films Decision Before Dawn ( 1951 ) and A Time to Love and a Time to Die ( 1958 ).

Hill, Pee Wee Crayton, Harry Choates, Lightnin ' Hopkins, Gatemouth Brown, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thorton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sippie Wallace, Victoria Spivey, Mance Lipscomb, Scott Joplin, Hot Lips Page, Gene Ramey, Jack Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, Kenny Dorham, Ella Mae Morse, Charles Brown, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Leon Payne, Tex Ritter, Roger Miller, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Horton, George Strait, Jim Reeves, Waylon Jennings, Buck Owens, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Doug Sahm / Sir Douglas Quintet / Texas Tornados, Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Burnett, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Taylor, Lydia Mendoza, Flaco Jimenez, Santiago Jimenez Sr., Beto Villa, Narcisco Martinez, Archie Bell & the Drells, Dustin Adams, Johnny Guitar Watson, Yolanda Adams, Ornette Coleman, King Curtis, Mickey Newbury, Phil Ochs, Townes Van Zandt, Selena Quintanilla, Pantera, Steve Miller Band, Boz Scaggs, Charlie Sexton, Janis Joplin, ZZ Top, Eric Johnson and many others.

* Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace ( 1875 – 1932 ), English crime writer, journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.

Eisner guided the careers of many fighters, including Jerry Schoolboy Cheatham, Edgar Wallace, Ramon Olivas, Chuck Walker, and Paea Wolfgramm.

* The War of the Nations ( 1914 ) with Edgar Wallace and others

* Wallace, Edgar ( 1931 ) The Devil Man ( a fictionalised account of Peace's later career with some accurate details of his trials and execution — available from Project Gutenberg Australia )

Porges read the works of such authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, O. Henry, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens and Edgar Wallace.

* The Man in the Royal Suite — Adapted by Collier from a novel by Edgar Wallace for The Four Just Men, April 27, 1960 ( Season 1, Episode 27 ).

In the 1920s Bourne End became home for two distinguished literary figures ; Enid Blyton, a perennially popular children's writer, moved into Old Thatch on Coldmoorholm Lane, and Edgar Wallace, a prolific crime author and dramatist, bought Chalklands off Blind Lane.

Elwood's Fantastic Fiction biography claims that he has sold " a thousand articles and a few short stories " to publications including Ladies Home Companion, Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine, Photoplay, Grit and Weekly Reader.

* The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre ( 1961 ) – Mary Greer

In the German Edgar Wallace film series of the 1960s, he was seen in The Trygon Factor ( 1966 ).

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

* Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, from the Mystery Writers of America, for The Thin Blue Line ( 1989 )

The Mystery Writers of America present an annual award known as the Edgar Award for distinguished work in the mystery genre.

In 1976, the Mystery Writers of America honored Sobol and his Encyclopedia Brown series with a special Edgar Award.

Perkins and Sondheim received a 1974 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

The Mystery Writers of America honored Gould and his work with a Special Edgar Award in 1980.

Two of McGovern's stories, " To Say I Love You " and " Brotherly Love " ( from the first and third series respectively ), received Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 2001, Benson received a Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her contributions to the Nancy Drew series.

In 1961, Addams received, from the Mystery Writers of America, a Special Edgar Award for his body of work.

The Mystery Writers of America gave her their Edgar Allan Poe award in 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman.

Better known are the earlier dark works of Edgar Allan Poe ( e. g., " The Murders in the Rue Morgue " ( 1841 ), " The Mystery of Marie Roget " ( 1842 ), and " The Purloined Letter " ( 1844 ).

In addition, she has written four medieval mysteries, the first of which, The Queen's Man, was a finalist in 1996 for the Best First Mystery Edgar Award.

Penman's first mystery, The Queen's Man, was a finalist for an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 1841, the cave became a legend, when Edgar Allan Poe wrote " The Mystery of Marie Roget " about an event that took place there.

In 1998, writer John Milne received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the second series episode " Blood, Sweat, and Tears ".

This was closely followed by an illustrations for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: the first version of that title was restricted to monotone illustrations, while a second iteration with 8 colour plates and more than 24 monotone images was published in 1923.

Winner of Peabody Award and a special Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America.

The show's particular focus on crime was recognized in 1980, when, in honor of its 25 years on the air, The Edge of Night was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.

The writing team of Ellery Queen received the following " Edgar " awards from the Mystery Writers of America:

* 1950 — Special Edgar Award for ten years ' service through Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

* 1969 — Special Edgar Award on the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Roman Hat Mystery

Two years later the US edition was awarded the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for " Best Mystery Novel ".