Charles Edmonds Walk

Charles Edmonds Walk was an American writer born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 18, 1875. Reliable catalog and book-history sources connect him with a run of popular mystery and adventure titles from the 1910s, including The Paternoster Ruby, The Silver Blade, The Crimson Cross, The Time Lock, and The Green Seal.

His fiction was published widely enough to remain available through library and public-domain collections today, which suggests he had a solid readership in his time. He is also credited as the writer behind The Girl in the Dark (1918), showing that his storytelling moved beyond print and into silent film.

Some basic life details are less consistent across sources. A grave record gives his birth as March 18, 1875, in Memphis and his death as October 14, 1943, in Raiford, Florida; because the date supplied here was 1875–1942, it is worth noting that the death year is not fully settled from the sources I could confirm during this search.