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| Author | Edgar Wallace |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Publisher | Hodder & Stoughton |
Publication date | 1926 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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The Black Abbot is a crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace which was first published in 1926[1] about the ghost of an abbot haunting the grounds of an old abbey and protecting a lost treasure.
The following year Wallace turned the story into a play The Terror which itself had several film adaptations.
- ^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2012). Blood on the Stage, 1975-2000: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection. Scarecrow Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780810883550.