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A.E.W. Mason
Book List in Order: 34 titles
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Four Feathers
- 1902
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A Soldier's Shame... It is 1882 and British officer Harry Feversham has it all: a loving fiancée, the camaraderie of fellow soldiers, a bright future in a nation at the height of its imperial power. But before he is deployed to battle in Africa, he ...
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At the Villa Rose
- 1959
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The debut of Inspector Hanaud, France's most dazzling deductive mind Aix-les-Bains is a gorgeous place to spend a vacation, and Harry Wethermill is happy to be on its lake, enjoying his time away from it all. Just when it seems life could not get ...
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The Winding Stair
- Nov-2019
- / Historical
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Paul Ravenel's life takes an unexpected turn when long-buried family secrets surface upon his return to England. Determined to restore his family's honor, he joins the French Foreign Legion, only to risk it all for love in exotic Morocco. Paul must n...
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Inspector Hanaud
- Apr-2024
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This audiobook contains the first three adventures of A. E. W Mason’s enigmatic and mercurial Sûreté detective, Inspector Hanaud—a key inspiration for Agatha Christie’s celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot. First, Hanaud inves...
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Clementina
Clementina is an action-packed tale ripped from the pages of history. In 1719, Polish heiress Maria Clementina Sobieska was set to marry the Prince of Wales, but many factions in Europe opposed the union on political grounds. Will the marriage take p...
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The Courtship Of Morrice Buckler
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was a British author. He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He is the author of more than twenty books,...
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Ensign Knightley And Other Stories
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948) was a British author. He studied at Dulwich College and graduated from Trinity College, Oxford in 1888. His first novel, A Romance of Wastdale, was published in 1895. He is the author of more than twenty books,...
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The Philanderers
Five Englishmen were watching a camp fire in the centre of a forest clearing in mid-Africa. They did not speak, but sat propped against logs, smoking. One of the five knocked out the ashes of his pipe upon the ground; a second, roused by the movement...
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Running Water
Get set for edge-of-your-seat excitement and adventure in A. E. W. Mason's Running Water. A rescue team must race against time to save a trapped mountaineer in the treacherous upper reaches of the Swiss Alps. Packed with action and romance, this fast...
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The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel
A.E.W. Mason was a 20th century British politician, but today he's best known for the classic The Four Feathers, a story about the virtues and vices of wartime....
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The Broken Road
This tale set in colonial India underscores the pervasive sense of dislocation that imperialism often leaves in its wake. A well-born young man from India travels to England for schooling. When he returns, he finds that his whole world has been turne...
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The Drum
Murder and intrigue in a princely state on the Indian border. A fairy drum no one must see beaten. A secret mission across the Hindu Kush and friendship between an Indian Prince and an English drummer-boy. All these are elements of "The Drum" which i...
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Fire Over England
Set in the Elizabethan era, Fire Over England' is the story of Robin Aubrey, whose ambition is to both serve his queen and avenge his father who fell foul of the The Spanish Inquisition . He assembles a small fleet with a view to help fight off the S...
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The Four Corners of the World
British author A. E. W. Mason spent time as a member of Parliament and a Captain in World War I, but his first love was writing, and he produced dozens of novels and short story collections over the course of his career. The Four Corners of the World...
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Gems of Mystery: Lost Jewels from a More Elegant Age
In the Fog - by Richard Harding Davis’sThe Affair at the Hotel Semiramis - by A.E.W. MasonHearts and Masks - Harold MacGrathThree wonderful tales of mystery from some of the best known writers of the period before the First World War -- A fogg...
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Green Stockings
ACT I Scene: A room in Mr. Faraday's country house; at the upper left corner a little room is recessed, in which is a folding card table and four chairs. Windows at back. On table are two decks of cards, an ashtray and two bridge-markers and pencils....
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The House in Lordship Lane
SYNOPSIS:Enter Bryan Devisher, over the side of the ketch in which Mordaunt was taking Mr. Julius Ricardo home to London on the summons of his old friend, Inspector Hanaud of the Paris Surete and the English ' idioms.' Exit, Devisher and Mo...
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Konigsmark
Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle is forced, for political reasons, into marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover, afterwards George I of England, but has a lover: Prince Christopher, Count Königsmark. A story of high drama, passion, action and ...
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Lawrence Clavering
A.E.W. Mason was a 20th century British politician, but today he's best known for the classic The Four Feathers, a story about the virtues and vices of wartime....
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Miranda of the Balcony
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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Musk and Amber
Julian Linchcombe is the remarkable heir to the Earl of Linchcombe’s estate and he has the voice of an angel. When he is taken to the festival of San Januerius in Italy to witness a miracle, his uncle arranges for him to go sailing with a local fis...
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No Other Tiger
Beginning in the opulent lands of India, home of enchantment, colour and adventure, this novel becomes a mystery that begins with a tiger hunt across Asia. The story is woven skilfully around the secrets of the East and conjures a glittering history ...
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Parson Kelly
So wrote Mr. Alexander Pope, whom Nicholas Wogan remembers as a bookish boy in the little Catholic colony of Windsor Forest. The line might serve as a motto for the story which Mr. Wogan (now a one-armed retired colonel of Dillon's Irish Brigade in F...
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The Prisoner in the Opal
An Englishwoman is brutally murdered in the South of France and an American goes missing. With the discovery of a body, a severed hand and an opal bracelet, Inspector Hanaud of the Surete is called in to investigate. It s not long before allegations ...
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A Romance of Wastdale
A.E.W. Mason was a 20th century British politician, but today he's best known for the classic The Four Feathers, a story about the virtues and vices of wartime....
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The Summons
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason (1865-1948), who wrote as A.E.W. Mason, had a long and productive career. He wrote many novels and short stories, ranging from mysteries and courtroom thrillers to the classic adventure novel, THE FOUR FEATHERS.
THE SU...
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They Wouldn't Be Chessmen
Inspector Hanaud, Mason's cunning French detective, investigates a plot to steal a priceless pearl necklace belonging to the Rajah of Chitipur. A young opera singer is involved, along with her vanished accomplice. All is not as it appears and the man...
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The Truants
There were only two amongst all Pamela Mardale's friends who guessed that anything was wrong with her; and those two included neither her father nor her mother. Her mother, indeed, might have guessed, had she been a different woman. But she was a wom...
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The Turnstile
At the first glance it looked as if the midnight chimes of a clock in an old city of the Midlands might most fitly ring in this history. But we live in a very small island, and its inhabitants have for so long been wanderers upon the face of the eart...
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The Witness For The Defense
A.E.W. Mason was a 20th century British politician, but today he's best known for the classic The Four Feathers, a story about the virtues and vices of wartime....