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Blue Hand

novel by Edgar Wallace

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ85806594 ↗
Source-derived summary

Blue Hand is a 1925 thriller novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace.

Adaptation

In 1967 it was adapted into the West German film Creature with the Blue Hand, part of Rialto Film's long running series of Wallace adaptations.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Blue Hand” as novel by Edgar Wallace. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Blue, Hand and novel.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Blue, Hand and novel providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Blue Hand”, the useful work is to connect “novel by Edgar Wallace” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85806594. The first chronological checks are 1925 and 1967.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Blue Hand”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Blue Hand primary sources, Blue Hand archive and Blue research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Blue Hand”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Blue Hand” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.