The Daffodil Mystery is a 1920 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. It features the detective Jack Tarling and his Chinese assistant Ling Chu. It was adapted into a West German film The Devil's Daffodil (1961), part of a long-running series of Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film. Clark, Neil. Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Edgar Wallace, the Man Who Created King Kong. Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2015. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Adaptations (1)
The Daffodil Mystery was adapted into a 1961 film.
The Devil's Daffodil1961 · film · 86 min · dir. Ákos Ráthonyi · IMDb ↗IMDb5.6A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
