| The Melody of Death | |
| Author: | Edgar Wallace |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Crime |
| Publisher: | Arrowsmith |
| Release Date: | 1915 |
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The Melody of Death is a 1915 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Believing that he is suffering from a fatal illness a newly-married man begins to commit a series of crimes to make sure his wife will be provided for after his death.
In 1922 the story was turned into a silent film Melody of Death directed by Floyd Martin Thornton, one of a number of Wallace adaptations made by Stoll Pictures.[1]