Summary
Summary of Jack O' Judgment
Who it’s for
For readers who love fast crime fiction, tales of criminals and those who hunt them, and the roots of the modern thriller, with justice and vengeance pulling in different directions.
What this book is
Jack O' Judgment is a crime thriller by Edgar Wallace, the British writer who dominated popular fiction in the early twentieth century. Wallace wrote at great speed and with a newspaperman's sense of what holds an audience. His books move fast, place crime in the streets and rooms of a real-feeling world, and ask who has the right to punish.
This summary looks at the book through what readers of a Wallace thriller meet: the author's method, the shadowy underworld he liked to portray, the pull between law and private justice, and the craft of the pace. You get a clear sense of the kind of story you are stepping into, and of why it is built the way it is. Let us start with the man behind it.
In this summary
- 1Wallace wrote thrillers like a reporterFree
- 2The underworld is a place of shadows
- 3Justice and vengeance pull in different directions
- 4Read it for pace, clues and surprise
Key point 1 of 4
Wallace wrote thrillers like a reporter
Edgar Wallace began as a journalist and worked as a war correspondent before he turned to fiction. That training shows in his books. He writes in short, clear sentences, he keeps scenes brief, and he gets to the point fast.
He was also famously productive. He is said to have dictated much of his work, and he produced an enormous number of novels, stories and plays in a single career. Readers in his day knew his name as a sign of a quick, dependable crime story.
For you as a reader, this means the book asks little of your patience. You do not need to study it. You follow the action, the clues and the clash of wills, and the prose keeps out of the way. The pleasure comes from momentum, from a plot that always seems to be moving toward a confrontation.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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