Kate plus 10

Edgar Wallace

Summary

In Kate Plus 10, Edgar Wallace fashions a briskly plotted crime-adventure around the elusive Kate, a daring female mastermind who leads a band of ten skilled accomplices in a sequence of audacious thefts and evasions. The novel exemplifies Wallace's hallmark style: economical prose, rapid scene changes, sharp suspense, and an instinctive feel for popular sensation fiction. Emerging from the fertile early twentieth-century British thriller tradition, the book stands at the intersection of detective story, criminal romance, and newspaper-serial melodrama, presenting crime not only as menace but as theatrical intelligence. Wallace's extraordinary productivity as a journalist, war correspondent, playwright, and novelist decisively shaped this work. His familiarity with urban crime reporting and with the appetites of a mass reading public helps explain the novel's vivid underworld atmosphere and relentless momentum. Wallace was drawn to stories of pursuit, disguise, and criminal organization, and in Kate Plus 10 he also exploits the unusual figure of a woman commanding the narrative center of intrigue, reflecting his flair for memorable popular characters. This novel is especially recommended to readers interested in the evolution of the modern thriller and in early crime fiction's experimentation with charismatic lawbreakers. It offers both entertainment and literary-historical value: a compact, energetic example of Wallace at his most readable and inventive.

Available since: 06/29/2026.

Print length: 127 pages.

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