| The Clue of the Silver Key | |
| Author: | Edgar Wallace |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton (UK) Doubleday Doran (US) |
| Release Date: | 1930 |
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The Clue of the Silver Key is a 1930 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.[1]
Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when petty thief Tom Tickler is killed and left in a taxi with £100 in his pocket. His discoveries eventually lead him towards the mysterious businessman Washington Wirth.
In 1961 it was made into a film Clue of the Silver Key directed by Gerard Glaister and starring Bernard Lee and Finlay Currie.[2] It was made as part of the Edgar Wallace Mysteries film series produced by Anglo-Amalgamated.