At the Villa Rose has a number of strange and inventive moments. As Inspector Hanuad must gather evidence to determine who killed the rich Madame Dauvray, it is suspected the murderer was after her jewels. The inspector must fill in the blanks that the witness accounts leave in the telling of the events on the night of the murder. Half way through the book the central mystery is discovered and a confession changes the atmosphere of the book from detective story to a melodrama.
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Alfred Edward Wooley Mason was born in 1865. He was educated at Dulwich College before being sent up to Oxford University. Once his formal education was completed, Mason went on to become an actor. He began his writing career with historical fiction and then moved into the arena of politics, becoming a Liberal Member of Parliament for Coventry in 1906. But his love of writing carried on and Mason developed his style to incorporate detective fiction, introducing one of the earliest fictional detectives, Inspector Hanaud, the Gallic counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. His detective fiction contains material clues and spontaneity. Throughout the course of his life he produced over thirty titles. A E W Mason died in 1948.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good mystery, bad story structure,
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The first part of this novel present a fast-paced, suspenseful story of murder and detection, with effective surprises. I would give that section of the novel 5 stars. Unfortunately, the murderer is unmasked two-thirds of the way through. The rest is anticlimactic, the retelling at length of the story of the murder before its discovery, a story that we already know for the most part. The retelling is (for my taste) too detailed, beginning with plot-irrelevant information on the origins of one of the characters. The retelling does go on to explain some of the details of the crime, but these are usually slight: such as why was one sofa pillow was found wrinkled and the other marked by a drop of blood.Unless you're interested in the back-story, I would recommend skipping Chapters 15 (Celia's Story) through 20 and going straight to Hainaud Explains (Chapter 21, location 2750). Generally, the writing is good, the characters are credible, and the plot holds interest. Hainaud the detective has an ambivalent personality that flips between kindliness and biting sarcasm, often at the expense of a happenstance sidekick named Mr. Ricardo who repeatedly states the obvious as if he were making brilliant deductions.
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The Inspector Hanaud books were famous during Mason's lifetime and very popular. If you like Agatha Christie style books you should like this too.Personally I prefer his other books such as The Drum and The Broken Road, but that is a personal preference as regards the subject matter. The book itself is just as well-written as the others.
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The detective in this story has a little bit of an attitude but he is good. Not much of a surprise ending though.
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Helene Vauquier, Harry Wethermill, Adele Rossignol, Marthe Gobin, Celia Harland, Villa Rose, Villa des Fleurs, Adele Tace, Madame Dauvray, Celle Harland, Captain Harland, Hotel Majestic, Pont de La Caille, Louis Besnard, Commissaire of Police, The Great Fortinbras, Rue du Casino, Camille Dauvray, Monsieur Fleuriot, Mont Revard, Chef de la Surete Browse Sample Pages:
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Helene Vauquier, Harry Wethermill, Adele Rossignol, Marthe Gobin, Celia Harland, Villa Rose, Villa des Fleurs, Adele Tace, Madame Dauvray, Celle Harland, Captain Harland, Hotel Majestic, Pont de La Caille, Louis Besnard, Commissaire of Police, The Great Fortinbras, Rue du Casino, Camille Dauvray, Monsieur Fleuriot, Mont Revard, Chef de la Surete Browse Sample Pages:
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