Edgar Wallace

Mr Justice Maxell Illustrated Edgar Wallace

Mr. Justice Maxell is a 1922 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Like several of his books it is partly set in Morocco, where Wallace had previously worked as journalist. When Cartwright and Maxell visit the theater in Tangiers, Cartwright boldly liberates the Irish singer Miss O'Grady from her infamous surroundings, so angering the theater owner's son and the Spaniard Jose Ferreria. Then the news from El Mograb is good, so Cartwright leaves to arrange the necessary finance. In the Crown room of the Law Courts, Mr. Justice Maxell is asked by the attorney general if he is doing business with Cartwright. "No," he lies.