Major Haynes of the Secret Service is a fine series of Wallace stories about wartime espionage. During the First World War Edgar Wallace wrote a number of morale-boosting tales about the skill and derring-do of the British military and intelligence services, mostly in the form of series published under such titles as Tam o the Scoots, Companions of the Ace High, and Clarence-Private.
Several series were published in the form of dramatic pseudo-documentary accounts of what he claimed to be true stories. Two of these featured an intelligence agent by the name of Major Haynes and made their first appearance in the Dundee paper Thomsons Weekly News.
