A criminal sentenced to life in a French penal colony leaves his girlfriend to take care of his stash. When he escapes, he finds that she has spent it all on frivolous living, and...

A classic romance novel by A.E.W. Mason about a man who glimpses a beautiful woman, then later helps her with the various troubles caused by her unscrupulous husband.

Captain Stephen Drake steps ashore in Plymouth and is immediately confronted by a reporter wanting his comments on an attack made on him by the editor of the Evening Meteor. Of...

Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment. He immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one...

Book in which we again join Ricardo and Hanaud, this time in an ambiguous situation. A young, wealthy vagabond English man, Calladine, whom Ricardo knew before, hastily comes to...

“The picture hangs at my lodgings here at Avignon, a stone’s throw from the Porte de la Ligne, and within the shadow of Notre Dame des Doms, though its intended...

Paul Ravenel is brought up abroad in mysterious circumstances. Upon his return to England he learns that his father was disgraced as an army officer in India and assumed French...

Cynthia Daventry, the heroine of the story, grows up in Argentina as the adopted daughter of Robert and Jane Daventry, an English couple. Unable to have children themselves, they...

Filmed three times, At the Villa Rose is Mason and his cunning detective Hanaud at their best. Missing jewels; high adventure some one hundred and fifty kilometres from Geneva; a...

“The Ginger King”, was first printed in the Strand Magazine in 1940, and was never collected in a book form during Mason’s lifetime. A detective Hanaud mystery.