style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">The greatest American pulp writers reached their largest readership in the late 1920s, and there were British equivalents: Fleet Street’s own Edgar Wallace wrote 175 novels, including 12 in 1929 – yet it seems that the more productive these writers were, the less respect they garnered.