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The Squeaker (novel)

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The Squeaker
First edition
AuthorEdgar Wallace
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime
PublisherHodder & Stoughton (UK)
Doubleday Doran (US)
Publication date
1927
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Squeaker is a 1927 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.,[1] published in the US as The Squealer in 1928.[2] In the story, an ex-detective goes undercover to find out the identity of a notorious informer who betrays his criminal associates to the police for his own gain.

Film adaptations

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The novel has been adapted for the screen several times:

References

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  1. ^ Bergfelder p.145
  2. ^ Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Retrieved 20/9/22.

Bibliography

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  • Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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