Edgar Wallaceās 1931 novel āThe Devil Manā is the mysterious and thrilling story of Charles Pearce, an small, unnerving, musician, gifted but terribly boastful. Pearce is physically repulsive, tiny in stature, but a Samson in strength. Woman canāt resist him, but they donāt know the real Pearce. He is also a burglar. And a murderer. There is a baffling mystery that someone urgently needs to solve... Full of dispense, action and amusing characters, āThe Devil Manā constitutes a veritable page-turner that fans of crime fiction wonāt want to miss. Interesting novelized biography of Charles Pearce, an infamous 19th century British burglar.