''A Debt Discharged'' is a 1916

thriller novel Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspe ...

Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was ...

. An American investigator goes in pursuit of a gang forging money on a large scale.

Film adaptation

In 1961, it was turned into the film ''

Man Detained ''Man Detained'' is a 1961 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Robert Tronson and starring Bernard Archard, Elvi Hale and Paul Stassino. The screenplay was by Richard Harris, based on the 1916 Edgar Wallace novel '' A Debt Disch ...

''; it was directed by Robert Tronson as part of a long-running series of Wallace films made at

Merton Park Studios Merton Park Studios, opened in 1929, was a British film production studio located at Long Lodge, 269 Kingston Road in Merton Park, South London. In the 1940s, it was owned by Piprodia Entertainment, Nikhanj Films and Film Producers Guild. Peter M ...

.Goble p.487

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* ''A Debt Discharged'' (full text) at Wikimedia Commons 1916 British novels Novels by Edgar Wallace British thriller novels British novels adapted into films {{1910s-crime-novel-stub