House Of The Arrow

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Detective Fiction

Authors: A. E. W. Mason In Year : 1924

Book Language: English

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Letters Of Mark
A Cry For Help
Servants Of Chance
Betty Harlowe
Betty Harlow Answers
Jim Changes His Lodging
Exit Waberski
The Book
The Secret
The Clock Upon The Cabinet
A New Suspect
The Breaking Of The Seals
Simon Harlowe's Treasure-Room
An Experiment And A Discovery
The Finding Of The Arrow
Hanaud Laughs
At Jean Cladel's
The White Tablet
A Plan Frustrated
A Map And The Necklace
The Secret House
The Corona Machine
The Truth About The Clock
Ann Upcott's Story
The Night Of The 27th
The Façade Of Nôtre Dame

A young English girl is accused in Dijon of murdering her French aunt. Hanaud to the rescue! Inspector Hanaud is a member of the French Sûreté. He is said to have been the model for Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, as well as the opposite of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. In 1910, Mason undertook to create a fictional detective as different as possible from Sherlock Holmes, who had recently been resuscitated after his supposed death by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1903. Inspector Gabriel Hanaud was stout, not gaunt like Holmes; a professional policeman, not a gentleman amateur; from the French Sûreté, not Victorian England; and relying on psychological insights rather than physical evidence. His "Watson" is a retired London banker named Mr. Julius Ricardo, though he appears only briefly in this novel. (David Wales )