wyvernfriend
I am an Edgar Wallace fan, since my teen years and I do still enjoy them.
Edgar was an illegimate child, adopted by a couple who left school at 12, went to South Africa just before the Boer War (and somehow managed to avoid being one of the combatants during it) instead being a war correspondent, he became an editor for a newspaper in South Africa and married his first wife there.
His life is full of moments of being very financially stupid and generous at the same time, leaving some messes behind him but at the end his family weren't poor after him and his gererousity lives long in many people's memory.