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.

A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence, the tale begins with a dangerous youth...

A comedy in three acts

Captain Harry Luttrell is a soldier who is not happy where he’s currently stationed—in England, where he’s grown fat with boredom and fears that he will do...

The Brenva Glacier at Mont Blanc has always been a legend among mountaineers. When the talented John Lattery sets out one day to cross this sea of ice, no one thinks that it will...

The plump, middle-aged and ever-optimistic Inspector Gabriel Hanaud features in A.E.W. Mason’s last detective fiction. Set amid the acrid smog of London, a little affair...

This glittering three-part fantasy begins in Ancient Rome and tells an evocative tale of reincarnation up to the present day. A. E. W. Mason brings to life the poignancies of the...