The Squeaker is a 1927 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.,Bergfelder p.145 published in the US as The Squealer in 1928.Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Retrieved 20/9/22. In the story, an ex-detective goes undercover to find out the identity of a notorious informer who betrays his criminal associates to the police for his own gain.
Film adaptations The novel has been adapted for the screen several times: The Squeaker (1930 film), a British film The Squeaker (1931 film), a German film The Squeaker (1937 film), a British film The Squeaker (1963 film), a West German film
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Bibliography Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
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