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At the Villa Rose: A Positronic Book
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515442516
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Nov 25 2019
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The murder that introduced Inspector Gabriel Hanaud and helped shape the modern detective novel.
In At the Villa Rose, A. E. W. Mason presents the first appearance of Inspector Gabriel Hanaud, the cool and methodical French detective whose influence would echo throughout Golden Age mystery fiction. When a wealthy widow is found murdered in her secluded Riviera villa, suspicion falls quickly upon those closest to her. Yet beneath the surface of apparent evidence lies a far more intricate design.
As Hanaud reconstructs the final hours at the Villa Rose, he exposes concealed motives, false assumptions, and the dangerous power of inference. Set against the elegance of the Côte d'Azur, the novel combines atmosphere with disciplined deduction, moving from polished drawing rooms to quiet revelations with controlled precision.
Widely regarded as a landmark in early twentieth-century crime fiction, At the Villa Rose established Hanaud as one of the great precursors to the Golden Age detectives who would follow.
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One of the best, most artistic, most engrossing detective stories ever written.-The British Weekly
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