Charles Edmonds Walk

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1875, Charles Edmonds Walk later lived in Indiana and was associated with Kokomo in particular. Reference listings and library records connect him with a body of popular mystery and adventure fiction from the early 1900s.

Walk is remembered for novels including The Silver Blade, The Yellow Circle, The Green Seal, The Time Lock, and The Paternoster Ruby. His work often centers on crime, pursuit, and elaborate puzzles, and one of his stories, The Green Seal, was adapted for the 1918 silent film The Girl in the Dark.

Some online sources disagree about the year of his death, so it is safest to say that he lived from 1875 into the early 1940s. Even so, the surviving record clearly shows a prolific writer whose fast-moving mysteries found readers in magazines, libraries, and later digital reprints.